Hey, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > 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.
An OpenSolaris distribution provides a delivery mechanism for other communities and projects to be able to ship their work in binary form, allowing a far greater number of people to be able to see what's going on. The whole point of proposing this was to try and generate a community around it. Sure, I could have gone off, rounded up a few people and come up with something to propose 6 months down the line. It would have been a lot easier to determine the contents and direction, though arguably, a lot harder to convince a community that it's an open project when it clearly wasn't. No where did I mention a reference distribution - I agree, we're not necessarily at that point yet. Maybe we can schedule a discussion at next week's OGB meeting? > 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. Outside what is already listed in the description, we're getting into project management territory of which I'd like to think people could get involved and express their views - much of what make up an eventual distribution would be the projects that are their own separate entities (eg. Caiman). I don't believe either opensolaris-discuss or ogb-discuss is an appropriate forum for this. Glynn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
