I am always amazed at what a powderkeg of emotions we have around the
OpenSolaris.org project.
It seems as if the slightest sparc sets off an explozone of some sort.
Now then, the issue on the table is simple :
There is a PowerPC Community and a PowerPC Project space on
OpenSolaris.org but one of them is defunct and the other is clearly not.
One of them needs to go. Let's not get into a quandry over the fact
that there are code updates in the CVS that no one has seen or noticed
and instead focus on simply reducing the PowerPC port project web spaces
down to a reasonable number. Specifically we need to simply take the
PowerPC Community web space and fold its contents into the PowerPC
Project space.
No, I don't understand the issue over Project versus Community either
and that is a long standing problem that can be fixed over time. I do
know that Steven Lau has noticed a 1 to 1 relationship between the
content on the Community pages and the Project pages. So let's cull one
of them.
On the other matter, if someone wants to run off to Siberia and setup a
web space to run a PowerPC port of OpenSolaris and call it emo-PPlaris
then no one is stopping you. The PowerPC ( Polaris ) project can stay
where it is at just fine thank you at OpenSolaris.org and then we can
work all other issues out with reason and sound argument.
-
Dennis Clarke
