Sorry, just thought that I should add, If we're going to go forward & Sun Labs employees want to help, they should help as a community member, not as a leader of any sort.
so, our repo, bugtracking, code review/integration procedures, etc should be at a community site such as blastwave On 5/31/07, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: > I call for a vote of the members of this project to terminate > this project at OpenSolaris.org. Please indicate a YES or NO > below : > > YES [ ] - kill this project at OpenSolaris.org > > NO [X] - no .. not yet. Let's work this out. > > I'm not sure killing the project at OS.o is really the way to go, us > being a "project" is pretty meaningless either way, and being on OS.o > gives us a bit of visibility > > Regardless of your vote above, do you have an interest in the > creation/resurrection of the power/powerpc port of OpenSolaris > which was formally named Polaris ? > > YES [X ] - let us work together > > NO [ ] - no means no. Kill this forever. > > Us, ( the community ) can work together. OpenSolaris isn't the most > portable chunk of code, but I have faith that we can get it done > > If you feel YES, we can and should work on a port of OpenSolaris > to the PowerPC and POWER architectures then do you feel we should > once again remove this project outside of the Sun Microsystems > firewalls and get it back out into the community : > > YES [ X] - re-open what we had before for example > > NO [ ] - no ... let's talk about some other way. > > This last one is precisely what I'm getting at ( sorry about the harsh > language, by the way ), I don't think we can count on any code from > SUNW and I'd really still love to see the project go forward, so it's > in our best interest to reject any promises from sun unless they're > backed up with actual code that we can see. > > If we can't see the code, it doesn't exist, and it doesn't really > matter who's stalling it, at the end of the day Sun Microsystems is > giving us empty promises that end up killing community involvement. > > > > -- > PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 > Availiable on hkp://pgp.mit.edu > -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Availiable on hkp://pgp.mit.edu
