On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:02:16PM +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > Including a list of leaders is easily doable, though I was worried > that it might alienate the people who are keen to be involved - or > those within other projects that are doing a lot of the work > building the technology. If it's a necessity for an approval add Ian > Murdock and myself.
An appropriate time for individuals to learn about a prospective project and have an opportunity to join the team is during the discussion of its merits and goals within one or more Community Groups. Those groups are where the people most likely to be interested will be found and inspired. > Absolutely, it is out of the current scope of what we've already put > in place on opensolaris.org. Cool huh? I don't believe we're any > more equal than just about any other community group or project - in > fact, if anything, they are even more important. Indiana just pulls > all those bits together in where I feel there's an amazing > opportunity. If you want to create an OpenSolaris reference distribution, or any distribution that advertises itself as having that status, some type of community-wide approval will be required. It seems likely that the OGB is the appropriate body to consider such a proposal. Given the lack of detail, absence of an actual distribution to examine, the small size of the project team, and the lack of any sponsoring Group, I would personally find it impossible to support such a proposal today. However, as I pointed out earlier, there is no reason to tie your project proposal(s) to such a desire; a more appropriate and reasonable time to propose a reference distribution would be at a time when a distribution has achieved recognition as a successful and technically excellent piece of work. Also, while language requiring that projects have a finite duration has not yet been approved, it might be more helpful to break this proposal into a series of more concrete projects with clearly defined scope, goals, and stopping points. This would make it easier for potential sponsors to evaluate them and would offer much-needed clarity to what has unfortunately become a confusing situation for many. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
