On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Ashley Saulsbury wrote: > Mike Gerdts wrote: >> On 7/19/07, Octave Orgeron <unixconsole at yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> LDOM's are very kewl, I've been testing and working with them for a >>> while now. However, unless the source code for the LDM software and the >>> firmware is going to be open sourced, it may not make a lot of sense to >>> have an OpenSolaris community for it right now. Does anyone know if the >>> LDM software or the ALOM CMT firmware is going to be open sourced? >>> Otherwise, it makes it hard to do any development work or help direct >>> the product. >> >> >> +1 >> > > Hi Mike, Octave, > > Yes absolutely - we are going to open source the domain manager software! > > In fact, that was the reason behind Honglin's request for a LDoms > community project as part of Open Solaris. Not only do we want the > source published, but we *really* want to have people both inside *and* > outside Sun participating in its development - and building an Open > Solaris community is our preferred way to do this. > > For the moment we're agnostic about how to formulate a wider > virtualization community. > > However, it would be a shame to gate the availability of the domain > manager source code, and an open involvement in its development, on > pulling the other Open Solaris virtualization projects into a single > project. > > In the interest of furthing the most important goal (i.e. publishing and > opening Sun's LDoms development), might we suggest starting with a LDoms > community - if and how we address a coalescing of various projects into > a single virtualization community can then proceed as a parallel > discussion between those communities ? > > cheers, > > ash.
That makes sense to me. That is, it's probably best for LDoms to go for regular Project instantiation rather than gate itself on the more complex task of either trying to make LDoms a Community Group or make a merged Virtualization CG. So the next thing to do then is identify the best existing Community Group to to seek sponsorship from. The problem is, it's really unclear which CG that should be, and that's totally not the LDom team's fault... Eric
