Hi Everyone, Well I would not mind sponsoring it under the Systems Administrators Community. Would that work for now?
Octave --- Eric Boutilier <ericb at opensolaris.org> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/ http://unixconsole.blogspot.com unixconsole at yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting
