andrew wrote: I'm not qualified to address the first issue, but I can address the second one:
> The fragmentation continues with the fault that is preventing the > Jive forums on opensolaris.org from picking up messages from the > corresponding mailman mailing list. As has already been explained, this issue is caused by a bug in Jive, a third party product. We are actively working with the vendor to get a fix, and in the meantime you can either subscribe to the forums of interest, or read the list archives at mail.opensolaris.org. Until we get a fix from Jive, there's nothing more we can really do except to ask for everyone's forbearance. Longer term we are looking to replace Jive with an open-source alternative, if we can find something suitable. > These two errors deomonstrate a lack of focus within Sun towards > assisting the community, and are simply not good enough! Solaris has > a hard enough time gaining mind-share from from other OSes without > Sun shooting itself in the foot in this way. I don't quite see how a bug in Jive translates into a lack of focus on our part. As I've already said, it is something we are actively trying to resolve. One of the reasons for the upgrade is it forms part of the preparations for the site restructuring. If anything the fact that we've hit this problem shows that we are serious about supporting and developing the community, rather than the opposite. > Please, please, please can we have some assurances that Sun takes > community building as seriously as developing the Solaris product. I think I can safely say for all of us involved that we've taken community building seriously since the very start of the OpenSolaris project, and that we continue to do so. In fact, building a community was one of the primary goals, and still is. > These are amateur mistakes - please fix them! As far as the Jive issues are concerned, I think characterising them as an 'amateur mistake' is incorrect. Please remember that you may feel you are directing your comments at 'Sun the corporate entity'. However, they are being read by real people such as myself and the rest of the OpenSolaris.org team. -- Alan Burlison -- _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
