I'm the first to agree that the transition to Mercurial, getting the
source outside Sun's firewall, is going slower than I want. And now
there are problems with the automounter. Sigh.
It's not that we don't want to fix this. There are just a lot of
technical issues. The best thing you can do is to help out. Go check
out the Tools community and help! Folks there are working very hard,
but more hands won't hurt.
S Destika wrote:
[b]Do not reply to me, I read the forums - my email address is invalid and I do
feel bad I did nothing to fix it. [/b]
It was as easy to predict more than a year ago as it is today. In one of my
posts I expressed the below (Oct 11, 2005) for which I got flamed more than
once -
<Quote>
Let Sun create a workable, scalable development model around (Open)Solaris first. I pity the words
"request" "sponsor" "ask" above. It's going in the same direction as
OpenOffice.org - it's working but only with Sun employees doing the major heavy lifting, community presence
is not that big and thus the whole thing doesn't scale upto the point where it should ideally...
</Quote>
I feel sad that more than a year later OpenSolaris development is still closed, bug reports are still vague at the best and for the people to contribute they have to make sure they don't kill their urge and enthusiasm before they can get a change or two in.
As a result, people don't feel like caring for OpenSolaris, if they do, Sun
makes sure they go away by doing so much red taping, and the closed development
model (no design/implementation discussions, no crisp, flaming hot discussions
about how some part of code sucks and how it could be made to not suck etc.)
means people do not whet their appetite and gather virtually no interest in the
internals of OpenSolaris.
Classic example of how not to run an open source project.
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