Stephen Lau wrote: > Virtualization is a fairly broad encompassing domain - but certainly of > those communities listed below, BrandZ, Xen, Zones, and your proposed > LDOMS community have clearer connections to a Virtualization community.
Are you considering a heirarchical community structure ? Say virtualization, under which sub communities for Zones, BrandZ, xVM and LDoms are present ? Or just one giant community for everything? The problem with the all encompassing approach (enticing as it may seem) is that these are all largely orthogonal technologies. By way of analogy would you put ZFS, UFS and QFS communities in the same bucket ? (include also support for veritas ?). cheers, ash. > > -steve > > Honglin Su wrote: > >> It makes perfect sense to have a virtualization community to drive the >> commonality. However, there are several areas in virtualization such >> as Hypervisor, OS, Storage, Networking, and so on. >> >> Looking at the existing communities in OpenSolaris today, you'll find >> the following ones that are directly related to virtualization >> technologies: >> >> - Brandz >> - Desktop >> - Device Drivers >> - Networking >> - OS/Net (ON) >> - Solaris Volume Manager >> - Storage >> - Xen >> - ZFS >> - Zones >> >> Still some others may be relevant, but less specific: >> >> [0] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/#all >> >> Keith M Wesolowski wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 05:04:37PM -0700, Honglin Su wrote: >>> >>>> Please see the LDoms community proposal below. Greatly appreciate >>>> your support to help start the community soon. >>>> The LDoms OpenSolaris community is intended to focus >>>> specifically on the OpenSolaris side of the LDoms project. It's aim >>>> is to leverage Solaris as the ultimate infrastructure OS for LDoms >>>> deployment. People interested in the hypervisor should join the >>>> hypervisor mailing lists hosted by the opensparc.net. >>> >>> I could pick at nits like your emphasis on Solaris and Sun, but I >>> think there's a larger issue here. Given the generally positive >>> responses from the principals to the proposal that the Xen, BrandZ, >>> and Zones Community Groups merge[0], wouldn't these activities more >>> properly belong to a newly-created Virtualization Community Group? >>> There were several additional proposals made within that thread about >>> how the various virtualization efforts under way ought to be governed. >>> Have you reviewed those? If so, why do you believe a separate >>> Community Group is the best answer? >>> >>> [0] >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-April/001420.html >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> ogb-discuss mailing list >> ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > > >
