On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Christopher Kampmeier<Christopher.Kampmeier at sun.com> wrote: > Leaders of Installation and Packaging and Appliances Communities, > > This message is request your sponsorship for the establishment of a "JeOS" > or "Just enough Operating System" project as part of the OpenSolaris > Installation and Packaging community. > > Although we've discussed this project with Dave Miner and have his > sponsorship support, we'd also like to hear from the other leaders and > members of these communities. > > Please review and respond to this request by end of Thursday this week.
As an aside, if you fail to find enough endorsement in either of the communities that you proposed to, you may find better luck in the emerging platforms community -- surely, embedded targets would benefit from your deliverables, regardless of your choice of packaging system. Quite honestly, though, community sponsorship isn't even really a requirement. An entire platform port project very recently completed a delivery announcement without even being officially sanctioned by any community or group Useful work still progressed and they still consumed OpenSolaris.Org resources (source repo, wiki, etc) in the meantime. It may be that they did their work under the auspices of a user group, or it may simply be because it was run by other folks within Sun, which, as you know, "has its privileges". Theoretically, in July, you may have more freedom in publishing documents on the new XWiki site, regardless of official project status or not. The OSUnix community might welcome your project, as nascent as that community is. I believe you have lots of options here, depending on how important it is that you fit within the Install Community.
