On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com>wrote:
> Martin Bochnig wrote: > > Anyway, why was it necessary? >> > > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+web/transition-announcements > > This all boils down to that, even though community members raised the issue during the design phase, the website team didn't feel it was worth the effort to keep the structure of the new system visible thru the URI's that were exposed. Rather than build a new web services or RESTful type system, they chose instead to build and/or repurpose another set of monolithic applications that front a hidden and inaccessible backend databases. Since the Sun team who is doing this controls the entire website, and has shown by their actions that they have no desire to have any non-Sun community members on their development/site-management team, there is nothing the OGB can do - the pages may say "OpenSolaris Community", but the website development team is as proprietary as it gets, and the community/OGB has no say or leverage in the internal workings of Sun. Yes, this is a disgusting and pathetic situation - an open source community that has no ability to manage and develop its own website because the community can't be trusted with the responsibility. Never mind the fact that some of the community members (RoyF comes to mind) helped invent the web. -John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20091028/97b51dbf/attachment.html>
