On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Martin Bochnig wrote:
>>
>> IF sun believes in true (and fair) open source collaboration, why did
>> sun's DRM/DRI porting crew (from China?) never push their Solaris port
>> upstream into DRM/DRI's official git repo?
>
> Because Sun is made up of over 30,000 people (for another few weeks at
> least), and many of us believe different things than others of us, so
> it's hard to say that "Sun believes ..." and that then everyone at Sun
> will do whatever is necessary to do that.
Can everybody of those 30K do what he/she wants?
I thought there is some sort or hierarchical organization.
> I would love to see the DRI/DRM porting crew engage more with upstream,
> and have encouraged them to do so,
We were discussing about this a number of times, including in October
2008 and way earlier.
> but in the end, it's up to the
> individuals doing the work and their own individual work/communication
> style.
Yuppee yeah. I would want to work in an environment like this!
Finally I could do what I want, then.
> Unfortunately, this failure is now resulting in the upstream
> DRI/DRM project moving to having their upstream repo just be the Linux
> kernel tree, since that's the only OS for which patches and ports are
> maintained upstream, since neither the Solaris nor BSD communities ever
> really worked well there.
No BSD* is a commercial "product". Very much unlike Indiana and
especially Solaris 10 (and even SXCE).
This should be more than enough of a valid "reason" to handle things
like this with more care and consideration (leadership?).
Hint: Many Solaris customers believe, think and expect this, just ask a few ...
p.s. Nevertheless, to all readers a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 !...@#$%^&*()!!!!
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> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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