On Tue 29 Aug 2006 at 07:25PM, Danek Duvall wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:03:57PM -0700, Dan Price wrote: > > > > I would like to propose a new community called "OpenSolaris > > > Gardeners." The intention of the community is to provide a nexus > > > for a group of people who are already active in the community > > > and to attract new talent who share our values. The technical scope > > > of the community is roughly: > > > > > > - Automated code checking (lint, cstyle, check_rpath, etc.) > > > - Retiring of obsolete subsystems > > > - Care and feeding of the build process > > > > > > The goal of the community is to raise the overall code quality of > > > the system; while this community has some similarity to the Linux > > > "kernel janitors" project, our focus will be more on structural > > > changes than on code examination. > > While I really like the idea of this, it seems to me like there might be a > great deal of overlap between this and tools-discuss. Might that not be > confusing?
[CCing tools-discuss. For the precursor thread, see http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=54122 ] Danek-- I had to go away and ponder this-- apparently it took me two+ weeks. :) I think you make a good point-- and frankly my proposal may simply reflect my ignorance about the tools community. My general feeling is that "tools" is focused on providing tools to developers. My idea for "gardeners" (or whatever we call it) was to be chartered more around the improvement of the code itself. Is that too fine a distinction? That is to say, "lint party" or "should we retire I2O support?" seems a little far afield for the tools community, to me. And conversely, discussions about mercurial, SVN, porting, gcc compilation, etc. seem mostly separate from the "gardening" tasks. What do others think? Is there a charter for tools we should consult? Do I need some language in the proposal to separate gardeners from tools? Should we just increase the scope of the tools community instead? Should gardeners just be a mailing list which is part of tools? I'd appreciate your input. -dp -- Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
