>Within Sun, for the last 17+ years, anyone could initiate a "project" >at any time by simply sending a proposal email to a single internal >alias. It required absolutely no prior approvals, no sponsorship, >and no endorsement. (Though, while it is /always/ a good idea to >have your manager be aware of what you are doing, that is more of >an HR issue than a project approval one :-) > >Even so, many considered even that amount of effort to be "too >difficult". > >The only "downside" is that we have had to develop a set of "is >it dead yet?" heuristics to determine if a project is effectively >dead and not simply dormant or focused on internal prototyping or >otherwise still flying under the radar. No big deal.
The difference is that the OpenSolaris projects are in a way centrally administered. I think there are many ways to start projects: - working on a prototype on our own - sending out mail to find like minded people to divide the work And those are both a few steps down from an OpenSolaris "Project". I think you should not confused the every day word "project" with the OpenSolaris "Project" which his a somewhat higher bar. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org