Calum Benson <calum.ben...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 16 Sep 2010, at 14:04, Ashish Nabira wrote:
>
> > Lets add those important packages to repositories and make OpenIndiana
> > popular to newbies....That's one good way to make it popular .
>
> Anyone who wanted to was always free to contribute such packages to
> OpenSolaris, via spec-files-extra and later, Source Juicer. Not many people
> ever did, and of those, not everyone subsequently kept them up to date. If
> OpenIndiana can find the people to port and maintain a large package library
> that Sun/Oracle never could, then fair play to them!
The main problem with OpenSolaris under Sun was that it was close to
impossible to contribute. This was not a problem from missing contributors but
a problem caused by the was Sun did interact with contributors.
Jörg
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