FYI - anyone that would like to contribute to the http://oss4zos.org Wiki is more than welcome. Note: the main purpose is to discuss porting FOSS "Posix" software to z/OS, and *not* "OCO", etc.
Just send a note to me offline and I'll created a userid for you. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies (We don't have open registration turned on since we got porn-spammed when we did.) On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > IBM-MAIN is fine -- wonderful, even -- but for the *specific* audience I > have in mind there should be more dissemination. If you'd like to double > post (IBM-MAIN and the Blog), wonderful. If you'd only like to reply on > IBM-MAIN, your choice, but please don't complain later if a particular open > source project leader or team member never sees your comment or request. > > "Consider the users," folks, that's all. > > This isn't an IBM-MAIN bashing exercise. I have nothing to bash. It's just > a simple observation that, for this one *particular* topic, there's a (big) > world outside IBM-MAIN -- that hundreds of thousands of developers (if not > millions) who might care about your thoughts don't read IBM-MAIN (sadly) > yet just might stumble into a public Web site. You are certainly free to > ignore my recommendation to communicate your thoughts in the manner > suggested (in addition to IBM-MAIN). > > I'm surprised anyone thinks this is a radical notion. Several people > already commented on how existing open source for z/OS wasn't working well > because, in short, it wasn't lined up with the way the open source > community works. I agree with that observation. But in addition, posting > (only) to IBM-MAIN is not how most open source project communities work. > Sorry about that, but that's just reality. > > That's not to say that a blog is perfect. (Far from it!) Kirk at Dovetailed > posted a link at The Mainframe Blog to http://oss4zos.org which is a Wiki > that Dovetailed set up to explore bringing more open source software to > z/OS. (And Dovetailed is a notable ongoing champion of open source on z/OS, > which I recognized in the original blog post. They've already done some > fantastic work.) I happen to think a "master" community Wiki is exactly the > right approach to focus community efforts, so I would like to see things > head in that direction. Which means I probably owe Kirk an e-mail now. :-) > > I'm also surprised that nobody on the blog has yet nominated some of my > favorite open source. I'm deliberately not naming my favorites because I > don't want to bias even an unscientific survey. But let's just say I'm > still surprised. > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect > Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific > E-Mail: [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
