On Feb 7, 2008 5:04 AM, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker has a proposal before the OGB that will be voted on later > today. His proposal basically is asking to create a distro building
Actually, it was voted on and approved yesterday. > community. Supposedly it is agnostic, but in reality it seems to be a > precursor to an official "Indiana Project == OpenSolaris Binary > distro" move by our benevolent sponsors. No, that isn't true. Project Indiana is currently sponsored by the Desktop CG and I don't expect them to change that sponsorship unless they so desire. > Many of us signed on to be developers and advocates to something quite > different than what the leaders of the "Disto CG" believe. The distro > CG core sponsors want to make an Official OpenSolaris distro, and set > preconditions on what it means to be an OpenSolaris Disto. (As a No such item was contained within the proposal for the Distribution CG; nor do I know of any such plans. > this). In particular the Indiana team has expressed that only binaries > built by the Indiana team can be used to make an "OpenSolaris distro". > This I disagree with, as anyone should be able to take the OpenSolaris > source code and make an "OpenSolaris distro". (I believe that > diversity is going to be our future strength.) What the Indiana Project and/or SMI chooses to do is not relevant to the Distribution CG. > Although writing to ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org prior to the meeting > today, is probably the best way to make your voice heard, you can also > try calling in on the following numbers at 12 PST (3PM EST): I think you missed yesterday's meeting. Brian, I'm not sure where you obtained your conclusions about the Distribution CG. However, I assure you that the creation of the Distribution CG is a result of a desire to see more community involvement; not less. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
