Hello Roy, Friday, July 29, 2005, 6:09:16 AM, you wrote:
RTF> I am telling you, point blank, based on both my experience within RTF> the open source community and my research background in software RTF> architecture, that OpenSolaris will fail to achieve the goals set RTF> by Sun executives if you refuse to allow community members to RTF> develop new projects within the community on unstable branches. RTF> Furthermore, you CAN retain all of the compatibility conditions RTF> that you require and *still* give freedom to the community, but RTF> only if you let the community development proceed on branches RTF> (fork within itself) instead of chasing those developers off RTF> to other communities. My impression is that it's going to be allowed to make your own branch which is a fork of main gate. Then you can do whatever you want and with procedures you feel are necessary - it's all up to you. Technically, you can do it right now - it's just that current infrastructure (lack of it) doesn't make it easy - but you can download sources and put there ksh93 or whatever you want. Now if you want your work to be merged with main Open Solaris gate, then you have to follow specific rules. And IMHO this is VERY important, that Open Solaris main gate stays as a current-in-development gate for Solaris. For me and I belive for many others Open Solaris is really Solaris which is opened. And I strongly would prefer it stays like that. And I'm really excited with SchilliX, Gentoo, etc. What would be helpful is an infrastructure on OpenSolaris.org for projects like SchilliX and for easy creating your own gate. So we need SCM. If someone wants his own gate and maintain its changes and then create distribution on it - then there's nothing which/who can stop him. Now if his work proves to be valuable and will follow certain rules it could be merged with main gate. If Joerg wants to put pdksh or something else in his distribution then he is free to go. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
