Alan Burlison wrote:
C. Bergström wrote:
Is there a public TODO list? Historically, some of the evaluations
have resulted in decisions for OpenSolaris are imho not the best
choice. With this in mind I think it's critically important to be
involved before the hammer drops. (I understand more feedback from
the peanut gallery isn't always preferred, but I can back up my
statement pretty well.)
There is some information on the website community pages.
Link? I didn't see anything specific to this. Such as the criteria being
used or an evaluation process.. (Could myself or someone help here
without being pushy?)
I really see three obvious choices here..
1) Work with Jive Software.. In all honesty I don't know why the
strong opposition to this... Their newer versions solve a lot of the
complaints from the past.. (I know.. "we" use it..) Source is
available, but yes it's not under and OSI approved license..
Last time I heard, as a commercial organisation we were not eligible
for the Open Source version. That's something we'll have to revisit
when we get to the point where we can dedicate some resource to the
forum & mailing list arena.
I can't speak on behalf of Jive Software, but I can say they were kind
enough to help osunix. If it does come down to the OpenSolaris
community not being eligible because of Sun I'd ask why not move these
responsibilities into the community? Forums and public mailing lists
are user/community driven and I can't see any IP involved here. I'm
happy to either lead this effort myself or offline pass along those
contacts I have and also do introductions. I just want to see something
which is simple, easy, done soon and high quality. The need to have it
fixed has been expressed *a lot* of times before.. Instead of being a
bottleneck somewhere.. delegate parts of this task if possible..
2) Evaluate and hack up something to suit both the needs of Sun and
the community
That's the most likely option.
3) Build it from scratch *cough*...
Umm, no ;-)
From my perspective taking into account everyones time TCO is
probably going to be go with Jive.. If Sun or others are willing to
take the more expensive open source route I'll help out where I can
with this. I have vested interest to ensure our communities have
really great forums and collaborative social media tools..
"Open Source", "Expensive" ?
IPS? I said TCO.. because the source is available doesn't mean there's
not time/cost involved... Such as right now..
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