Ghee Teo wrote:
>>
>> For the Desktop community, contributing code to ON would probably be
>> just
>> about the last thing I'd consider to be appropriate criteria for
>> selecting
>> who the core contributors of the Desktop community are.
>> Contributions to
>> the OpenSolaris Desktop projects (JDS, KDE, SFE, XFCE, etc.) would be
>> far
>> higher on the list.
>>
> I would be of the slight different opinion here. I think everyone
> who has contributed
> and continuing contributing to the cause of OpenSolaris, be it QA,
> Deployment,
> volunteering promotion, etc.. should be considered as contributors for
> OpenSolaris.
> Obviously, we are the desktop community, we should more refined to the
> desktop
> side of the contributions. So when the person asks, we should take
> that into
> consideration. We should not restrict only to code based contribution
> projects.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
definitely agree.
> We hear very little from other Desktop distro such as KDE, XFCE apart
> from
> the questions of how to build and integrate into openSolaris. Can we
> include their
> blogs feeds into planet.opensolaris.org so that we can know of what
> they are getting on?
> Glynn, Steve?
>
That would be Glynn's call, he's the editor of p.o.o.
cheers,
steve
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