On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:40:34PM -0700, Bruce Rothermal wrote: > I thought the opensolaris was to be open to the world community to > contribute what they thought was interesting and valuable and what we > Sun thought was interesting and valuable would be in Sun Solaris. I > guess I was wrong.
This is a false dichotomy. Everyone (regardless of employer) may contribute, whether or not any corporation wants to sell the result. That does not mean anyone (regardless of employer) is allowed to scribble all over the OpenSolaris consolidations. There's a process, under the control of the engineering community, that must be followed for making changes to them. If you don't care to integrate into a consolidation, you can do whatever you want, but your work won't be a part of our code base. How is this different from any other open development community? I can't tell whether people deliberately confuse "Sun vs. not Sun" with "controlled change vs. random change" in order to stir up pointless controversy or it's really just not clear enough. It's not a subtle point. Suggestions for improving communication are always welcome. And in case you were tempted to think otherwise (it seems you were), I NEVER speak for SMI, only as an individual OpenSolaris engineer. So when I say "we" on these lists, I always mean "the OpenSolaris Community", and when I say "our consolidations" I mean "the code base in which we do our engineering work", not "the software SMI chooses to brand and sell as the Solaris Operating Environment". Clear? P.S. Surely we don't need to cross-post to 4 different lists. Yet I'm struggling to figure out where your questions would actually be on topic. Meta-discussion about the ARC process belongs on arc-discuss. Meta-discussion about governance belongs on ogb-discuss. Topical discussion of the specific project in question belongs on its discussion list or on that of its sponsoring CG. Perhaps it's best to just drop this entire thread and let the project team work out the technical issues among themselves and with the ARC, raising governance appeals to the OGB if later found to be necessary. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Fishworks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
