> On Feb 6, 2008 3:46 PM, Eric Boutilier > <Eric.Boutilier at sun.com> wrote: > > Shawn Walker wrote: > > > On Jan 15, 2008 11:13 PM, Shawn Walker > <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > >> I submit to the Chairman of the OpenSolaris > Governing Board a motion > > >> to be placed on the agenda of the next > scheduled meeting of the OGB, > > >> the following: > > >> > > >> To create a new Community Group, suitable for > coordinating and guiding > > >> the community's efforts in the creation of > OpenSolaris-based > > >> distributions, as outlined in the proposal set > forth by Shawn Walker > > >> in the following web posting: > > >> > > >> > > > http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/2008/01/motion-to-b > oard-proposed-community.html > > > > > > The following individuals have each accepted > their nomination: > > > > > > o Shawn Walker (id: swalker) (proposed > facilitator) > > > o Erast Benson (id: erast) > > > o Sara Dornsife (id: sarad) > > > o Glynn Foster (id: gman) > > > o Moinak Ghosh (id: moinakg) > > > o Ian Murdock (id: imurdock) > > > o Jim Grisanzio (id: jimgris) > > > > > > The remaining individuals have not yet > responded. > > > > > > > Actually, I responded -- here and off-list. But > anyway... > > Sorry, I should have said "have not yet responded or > have not yet > accepted or declined." > > > So did I miss something? I think there is now > broader representation of > > all the major distros (which was my concern) now > than the last time you > > posted it... > > Yes, though at this time, the representative of > SchilliX has not yet accepted. > > 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
I would still accept, but am I invited, have I been? FYI: Brian Gupta and I have been teaming on - you guessed it - OpenSolaris all January and February long, fulltime++, night and morning. Brian first convinced (me to return) - and then actually *enabled* - me to do this by sponsoring me financially from his own private money!! Certainly not only to help me personally (paying back my bank-loans, it still goes on...), but, before all, to help this very project: www.opensolaris.org . In my case it also means that I'm neglecting University for yet another semester (no exams, nothing, no career, no job). We have ported conary to OpenSolaris x64 and SPARC. Conary is way superior to IPS. We're currently setting up our preliminary conary repository. "MartUX" has been phased out, as the name sounds too egocentric. Brian Gupta proposed "SolarFlare" as alternative. So Brian had exactly the same idea as Shawn: The proposal to establish a new type of community distro creation project. And he did have this as early as last November! Blame me that he didn't announce it back then, I wanted to first get the port done and asked him not to announce anything before we would have reached milestone rc0 of our new distro. So either accept Brian and me as your followers, or let us unhide a hidden existing(!!) "competing" project and potentially join us afterwards, if you would like to benefit from our conary port. To us it is of less importance who is considered the follower vs. leader. It is, however, of highest importance to us, to establish conary[0] as SVR4-pkgadd's successor, rather than IPS which is clearly limited in comparision to conary. [0] http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary Cheers, Martin p.s. Conary test bits are to come out during the next days, but the repo is not entirely bootstrapped yet. -- This message was posted from opensolaris.org
