On 09/16/10 11:38 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
Calum Benson<calum.ben...@oracle.com> wrote:
On 16 Sep 2010, at 14:04, Ashish Nabira wrote:
Lets add those important packages to repositories and make OpenIndiana popular
to newbies....That's one good way to make it popular .
Anyone who wanted to was always free to contribute such packages to
OpenSolaris, via spec-files-extra and later, Source Juicer. Not many people
ever did, and of those, not everyone subsequently kept them up to date. If
OpenIndiana can find the people to port and maintain a large package library
that Sun/Oracle never could, then fair play to them!
The main problem with OpenSolaris under Sun was that it was close to
impossible to contribute. This was not a problem from missing contributors but
a problem caused by the was Sun did interact with contributors.
It was quite possible to contribute. Obviously, it's harder to do some
things than others. But it really wasn't as hard as you imply.
-Shawn
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