If OpenSolaris is losing its current users it's not because of technical issues.
My first option would be to push Oracle to open up more of the processes involved in creating their OpenSolaris binary distribution. But I doubt this is going to happen. My logic is as follows: if they had great plans of doing that and they saw all the people saying they wouldn't, wouldn't they feel urged to clear any doubts and make their plans explicit ? They didn't do that which means they are OK with people thinking things you stay as they are or become more closed. Because such plans don't exist. Since the first option is unlikely to happen, concentrating the efforts of all the other distribution is a very good goal. As I've said before, we don't have such a huge community to afford spreading efforts. We are more likely to accomplish something if more people are involved in a central project and committed to strike a balance between their personal opinions and creating a product. My only advice is that anyone involved should first think about the soft side of building a new distribution such as how contributions will be handled and what's the general goal. People that feel motivated to work on this effort must be made aware of the vision behind decisions. If a new distribution is being built just because OpenSolaris 2010.3 is late, that's a weak excuse because when it's released the motivation to work on the community distro is gone. IMHO, people will contribute to this project if they feel there is an welcoming environment, things are decided in plain sight, they can have a stake at it, etc.... Social first, Technical second. Motivate people to be contributors and not just "users" or "customers". -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ distribution-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/distribution-discuss
