> Job #2 - Have the foundation create infrastructure, > processes and other things for setting up a platform > for people to collaborate. (Mailing lists, SCM, > Commit process, patch management, reviews, etc.)
But that's exactly what's being worked on. What do you think the whole SCM switch from Teamware to Mercurial is? That's only for OpenSolaris - Solaris retains the internal mechanisms. > Let the community decide what is good and what is bad > for them. Let them define the processes. Let them > start and manage sub-projects based on meritocracy. Isn't that what we're doing? Or is your problem actually with the fact that OpenSolaris is being protected from "make it look and behave like Linux at the expense of compatibility" changes? > Let the foundation have a source tree of their own > separate from Sun's. The idea is to let community > drive everything. Benefit will be that people will > feel ownership of the projects and the freedom to > make their own decisions without conflict of interest > and other bureaucracy will bring in lots of amazing > things. But it does -- OpenSolaris is separate from Solaris. And the CAB does drive OpenSolaris. Yes, the fact is that lots of people in the community are Sun engineers, but we actually need them to head the effort -- there are extremely few people outside of Sun that know the product well enough to be able to effectively contribute. > This will include things such as open bug database > for the foundation which apart from being fed by the > community will also have a link from Sun's bug > database. Sun employees could for instance publish > the bugs they deem fit for the community to be able > to help with to the open bug database. No one gets > to live with a ridiculous bug database! That's exactly how it works right now. What exactly are your issues with the current bug database? Do you have any concrete suggestions? "A rediculous bug database" doesn't actually detail what your issue with her (the database) is. I know that I've been involved in several cases where I've made suggestions and those were either filed *for me* as RFEs (I didn't feel competent enough to work on them myself), or the people from the community got involved and solicited me for more feedback. And most of the suggestions I've made so far have either been accepted and will be implemented, and some of those I will be implementing myself. I've even made arrangements for a sponsor. I'm still unclear on whether you actually tried to contribute to OpenSolaris, and whether or not you have any code contributions and fixes. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
