On 2-Jun-07, at 10:54 PM, Cyril Plisko wrote: > On 6/2/07, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 6/1/07, thomas riddle <tom.riddle at sun.com> wrote: >> > John, >> > >> > No offense taken at all. Onward... :) >> > >> > Your suggestion of a blog is actually a fitting idea. I honestly >> tend to shy >> > away from commiting to one since what I write sometimes doesn't >> make sense to me >> > when I read it. But once it got going it could be a good >> vehicle. There is >> > nothing legal about it. >> >> Well, if you guys aren't comfortable keeping a blog, at least regular >> email updates are really a must. >> > > I personally value most the public source repository. It is by far > more complete > and quick to grasp that any other mean. It also lowers the > participation barrier > significantly. (No matter how skilled the SunLabs team is it is the > community > that will keep the project alive)
I agree 100%, our gate /must/ be outside. However, an external gate can still be stalled by knowing there's code coming but not having a clue what's getting put in to it in a couple months due to passing through arbitrary legal processes, hence the blog/mailing list updates. That being said, I suppose it could be run in a bazzar fashion ( like Linux ) where there is no such thing as a code lock & there's a race to be first to commit for credit. On the one hand that risks duplication of effort ( and with such a small dev. team that's not really a concern you can just ignore ), but on the other hand we don't get the result we have now ( stalled development because someone's working on code ). If I recall correctly one of the NetBSD founders regrets choosing the second model for precisely the reason I just attempted to outline. I've personally not decided which is the better methodology at the moment... comments? -- This Message has been Digitally Signed PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Availiable on hkp://pgp.mit.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/attachments/20070603/cf0d56ad/attachment.bin>
