Josh Hurst wrote On 02/01/07 04:13,:
On 1/31/07, Stephen Harpster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm the first to agree that the transition to Mercurial, getting the
source outside Sun's firewall, is going slower than I want.
How do you want to stimulate the growth of the Opensolaris community?
That may be more important right now. Opensolaris.org remains a small
fraction, if not the smallest, out of the Open Unix cake composed from
NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly, OpenBSD, Darwin, Linux and Opensolaris and
I don't see it GROWING.
Actually, site registrations are increasing and at an increasing rate,
too. We have 177 lists now, yet the number of mail continues to
increase, so I would suspect that new people are posting. Subscriptions
to the lists are increasing, too. Our conferences are pretty popular, as
well, and the biggest will be in India next month with perhaps 4,000
people attending Java and OpenSolaris sessions. request-sponsor will
always be a low traffic list since the entire process is manual and it
was designed to be small. We *are* growing. I'd like to grow faster, so
in that sense I agree that we can probably handle more. And I sense from
the Sun executives that they'd like to help OpenSolaris grow faster,
too. So, don't be surprised to see Sun out there more aggressively
promoting OpenSolaris in a variety of ways.
The notion that we may be smaller than some other community is
meaningless. I've been on this project for three years, and I can't
remember even one meeting when we considered community size an issue at
all.
Jim
Just the same people all the time. The request
sponsor list doesn't grow much either in terms of new contributors
(just the part with the unsponsored items grows). Just the same people
all the time.
Josh
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