Since I included collaboration with existing projects in the proposed scope, I don't see an issue there. It's clear to me that requirements and code would be contributed to various projects as appropriate.
My main concern is that the overall notion of JeOS won't gain much traction quickly if JeOS doesn't garner some standing and obvious presence in the Installation and Packaging community. If the community structure is flexible enough to enable motivated people with JeOS interests to establish our own web/wiki presence and perhaps a jeos-discuss alias, then that approach could address my concerns without the need for a formal project. However, to date, I've only seen a Community->Project structure as I've browsed OpenSolaris.org. I have to believe that there are many functional areas with similar rallying point interests that don't immediately or ever require spinning up their own project with a source repo and all. How does OpenSolaris support these interests? Chris Dave Miner wrote: > Stephen asked me to forward the below reply since there's something off > with the list filters. > > ----- Forwarded message from Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> ----- > > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:02:51 -0700 > From: Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> > To: Christopher Kampmeier <Christopher.Kampmeier at sun.com> > Cc: appliances-discuss at opensolaris.org, install-discuss at opensolaris.org, > Glenn Brunette <Glenn.Brunette at sun.com>, > Sujeet Vasudevan <Sujeet.Vasudevan at sun.com> > Subject: Re: [install-discuss] Project Proposal: JeOS > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) > > > This effort has substantial overlap with refactoring work in the > existing set of Install CG projects. Given the list of initial > contributors aren't active committers to any of the existing projects, > I'd rather see the team members participate in one or more of the > existing projects than start a new one, at least until we see that > separating the discussion and the development effort has some > significant benefit. > > My list of deliverables for an effort like this one is > > (a) one or more new DC templates and the output images of those > templates, > (b) one or more modifications to the pkg(5) import recipes, and > (c) changes to existing consolidations' packaging and initial > configuration. > > All of these seem best pursued in the context of the existing > projects/consolidations, rather than separately. > > - Stephen > > -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > _______________________________________________ > appliances-discuss mailing list > appliances-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/appliances-discuss
