--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps so; but we don't want to compromise o quality :-) > > I think, though, that you would need the "baptism by fire" first; > a bit of a Catch-22, but in my experience it was a real eye opener.
I feel maybe we're getting closer to the issue. I think a lot of people are put off by the perceived complexity of submitting code to OpenSolaris. I also think that not compromising on quality is a good goal, but that you have to understand that the community only produces Very Good Code only through an iterative process. I think it has to start with "barely works", proceed to "works in most cases", on to "works all the time on all platforms", followed by "we made it relatively fast" to finally "it's screaming fast". I think that expecting one person to follow through from start to finish by himself is too harsh, and only a few very motivated people will do it. I think you need to look at something like Debian, maybe having a unstable release, where everybody and their brother can go check in code that may break stuff, and then the community members can come in and find bugs, talk about them, fix them, and encourage/support each other. That would, I think, really chafe the Sun Engineering Way, but I am fairly confident it would get more people involved, regardless of license. As far as the patent/NDA encumbered libs, can could OpenSolaris Unstable even run without them, or with empty/minimal functionality wrappers? I'm asking because someone will want to compile code locally and see if it even runs before sending in diffs. Also, I would look at allowing people to check in either x86 or sparc code, letting the community work on the other. As someone else mentioned, I imagine very few people will have both types of machines. Thoughts? Chris Mahan 818.943.1850 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.christophermahan.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
