On 21-Feb-08, at 9:53 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:51 PM, John Sonnenschein > <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 21-Feb-08, at 8:59 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:57 PM, John Sonnenschein >>> <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 21-Feb-08, at 8:48 PM, John Plocher wrote: >>>> >>>>> Martin Bochnig wrote: >>>>>> This cannot be an argument for "SunOS", >>>>> >>>>> SunOS is an alternate name for the ON consolidation, which maps >>>>> pretty well to what was shipped 15 years ago as SunOS. Of course, >>>>> we took out SunView and strapped on the whole X/NeWS/Deskset/Open- >>>>> Windows/Motif/CDE/Gnome thing in the meantime, invented Java, >>>>> jumped >>>>> on the web bandwagon, ... and now we have a dozen or more >>>>> components >>>>> in addition to ON that make up the whole operating environment... >>>>> >>>>> That said, I still don't see any value for the community as a / >>>>> whole/ >>>>> in pursuing this fork off and rename ourselves thread... >>>> >>>> If one does not want to associate himself with indiana for whatever >>>> reason, and would prefer to contribute code to ON that helps >>>> SchilliX >>>> ( for example ) he has no way to communicate to others what project >>>> it >>>> is he contributes code to. Since OpenSolaris is now the canonical >>>> name >>>> for Indiana, he either must bring myself to saying that he >>>> contributes >>>> code to OpenSolaris (which we had previously established he did not >>>> want to do), or must write a 4 page diatribe on the history of the >>>> project. >>> >>> I don't believe that to be true. >>> >>> They can simply say, "I contribute code to the OpenSolaris community >>> which is used by many others." >>> >>> Just as code contributed to say, Fedora, etc. often gets contributed >>> back upstream to the Linux kernel project which SuSE and others then >>> in turn use. >> >> Indeed. But a kernel dev that uses Ubuntu does not then I don't go >> out >> and say "I contribute to SuSE" typically. They will generally say " I >> contribute to Linux ". A parallel which we lack. > > I'm not so sure about that. Ubuntu contributors tend to be fairly > proud that they contribute directly to Ubuntu. > > In fact, afaik, the Linux kernel maintainers often pick up patches > from various places, put them into their own kernel trees, and then > later mass integrate them into the main tree.
Irrelevant. If I want to directly say that I contribute to O/N without making reference to a particular distro, I have no provision for doing that.
