On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:25 PM, John Plocher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Alan Burlison <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Martin Bochnig wrote: >> >>> Anyway, why was it necessary? >> >> >> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+web/transition-announcements >> > > This all boils down to that, even though community members raised the issue > during the design phase, the website team didn't feel it was worth the > effort to keep the structure of the new system visible thru the URI's that > were exposed. Rather than build a new web services or RESTful type system, > they chose instead to build and/or repurpose another set of monolithic > applications that front a hidden and inaccessible backend databases. > Since the Sun team who is doing this controls the entire website, and has > shown by their actions that they have no desire to have any non-Sun > community members on their development/site-management team, there is > nothing the OGB can do - the pages may say "OpenSolaris Community", but the > website development team is as proprietary as it gets, and the community/OGB > has no say or leverage in the internal workings of Sun. > Yes, this is a disgusting and pathetic situation - an open source community > that has no ability to manage and develop its own website because the > community can't be trusted with the responsibility. Never mind the fact > that some of the community members (RoyF comes to mind) helped invent the > web. > -John
Hey John, I am surprised (and glad to witness) that you see it. Hope you are doing well) - %martin _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
