Shawn Walker wrote:
> I think my point behind that is important because the definition of
> what it is seems to be constantly changing. When the project first
> started, there were relatively few consolidations available, and ON
> was the primary one (though if I remember right DTrace was the first).
DTrace just found a way out the door early. Its not a consolidation -
its part of ON. ("ON" = OS/Networking - I discovered not all are familiar
with the term "ON".) DTrace is a project/community.
If "ON" was the intended endpoint, we would have called it "OpenSunOS". 8^)
> Everyone may disagree with me; I may even be the lone voice in the
> wilderness, yet my feeling is that right now the word "OpenSolaris"
> has a rather vague definition.
I agree.
Its a community (oops, a collection of communities).
Its a disto (???)
Its a floor wax.
Its a desert topping. 8^)
I think we are all talking without having recently read the top level
mission
statements. I'm guilty of this also, but I believe:
1) It was to concentrate on the "ON" stuff, only because that is
the code
that the OpenSolaris community are the ultimate maintainers of.
2) It was to "host" the other parts of Solaris (all of them), but
change to
the bits we weren't the ultimate maintainers of was to be
minimized.
Example: JDS customizes Gnome. The customization are "fair game"
to the OpenSolaris community, but generic Gnome enhancements
should visit gnome.org.
These aren't the full definition you are looking for, but they are a
couple of
points which seemed to be worth making.
- jek3
