On 5/15/07, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Inside Sun, for Solaris, the product management/roadmap definition role
is played by a committee called the "Solaris PAC" (Product Approval
Committee I think, previously it was the Solaris Operating Environment
Steering Committee or SOESC). It consists of both the engineering &
marketing teams - traditionally it has 2 co-chairs - one of the directors
of Solaris engineering and one of the directors of Solaris marketing.
At some point we should create an external to Sun body to take over this
role - an OpenSolaris Steering Committee if you will. (Not the OGB,
whose role is to manage the OpenSolaris organization and communities,
but a committee to manage the operating system that OpenSolaris produces.)
We'll also eventually need open replacements for the closed bodies that
manage the integration of the technology - the Solaris Nevada P-Team and
individual consolidation C-Teams, but there's still a lot of unanswered
questions about how to form and manage those.
Right now, since the OpenSolaris community has not taken up the mantle of
these roles, and the existing Solaris committees have not been interested
in opening up, we're letting decisions be made for the community behind
closed doors, and in many cases, not even announced to the community until
they suddenly see code checked in.
Very, very well said.. This is *exactly* what we should be doing.
-ian
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