Uros: > If you say that SUN has majority seats in GNOME governing/advisory > board or at least 'veto' right then we could close this topic > and work on our current voluntary projects peacefully.
The advisory board is an "advisory" board, and does not have any veto powers. That said, the GNOME community has a long history of working with all advisory board members in a fair and respectful manner. Sun has never had any significant problems working with the GNOME community to get support for Solaris or OpenSolaris upstream, as you would expect with any well run free software project. When there have been problems, it has mostly been due to a lack of resources in Sun to keep up with the state-of-the-art, and not because the GNOME community was blocking progress. You can close this topic and work on your voluntary projects peacefully, regardless; and I wouldn't worry too much about things like PulseAudio. GNOME works great on Solaris without it. Brian > ---------------------------------------- >> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:51:34 +0100 >> From: Calum.Benson at Sun.COM >> To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Fwd: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release >> team please stand up) >> >> >> On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:33, Uros Nedic wrote: >> >>>> The only real difference here is looking for GNOME RE team to make >>>> a statement >>>> defining that they are ONLY focused on Linux... I reckon this won't >>>> happen. >>> That is what I wanted to stress in this that post. >>> >>> Maybe, alternative is that SUN appears as one of major sponsors and >>> put 'our/their' >>> guys in their governing board (alanc, etc.), so we could secure our >>> future. >> Sun is already one of the major financial sponsors of many GNOME >> activities, and has seats on the GNOME Advisory Board and the GNOME >> Foundation board of directors. So to be honest, I think we're already >> as well represented in those arenas as we could reasonably expect to >> be, especially if this discussion ever reaches that level. (Which I >> think it would probably have to; I can't see how it would be up to the >> GNOME release team to set that kind of direction for the whole GNOME >> project.) >> >> Cheeri, >> Calum. >> >> -- >> CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland >> mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team >> http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 >> >> Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > _________________________________________________________________ > Share your memories online with anyone you want. > http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/products/photos-share.aspx?tab=1 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
