The lines between OS, middleware, and application are constantly blurring. Once upon a time TCP-IP was not part of many OSs. Is AMP part of the OS or not? I tend to agree with Stephen 's definition of "reasonable".
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Lau <ste...@opensolaris.org> Subj: Re: [ogb-discuss] What is OpenSolaris? Date: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:49 pm Size: 2K To: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> cc: OpenSolaris Governing Board Discussions <ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org> Alan Coopersmith wrote: > or more specifically, what projects/communities should be joining > the OpenSolaris community? Is OpenSolaris the right place for > any open source project coming from a Sun product that doesn't fit > into java.net or another existing community? > > We've already seen in the Storage & Cluster recent additions that > were not traditionally part of the Solaris OS, but extra-charge > products layered on top, and for most of the things they've released, > they may make sense as part of OpenSolaris. > > However I've had some informal talks recently with people from two > other projects in Sun who are looking at how to open source (and I'm > sorry, but I can't name them publicly at this time) - they're also > both traditionally unbundled products that run on top of either > Solaris or Linux - should they come to OpenSolaris.org to request a > project or a community, what should we tell them? Are we the place > to host projects that deliver primarily on Solaris, but also ship > versions for other platforms? (I suppose DTrace & ZFS already fall > into the that category, due to the MacOS X & BSD ports.) > > What if they don't support running on Nevada at all, but only on > Solaris 10 or older releases? Should a project seeking support > from OpenSolaris.org be required to run on at least one OpenSolaris > distro? (be it Solaris Express, Nexenta, Belenix, Indiana or > another one?) If it is a project that is a part of, based on, runs on, or in some way supports any OpenSolaris distribution and lacks a more appropriate home - then I think that's reasonable to me. I realise that's fairly open-ended, but it supports the idea of organic open growth. If a project starts out small, and grows to be something larger in scope than opensolaris.org, then it can always feel free to move off. If it's got a more appropriate place (e.g.: opensparc.net, java.net, or failing all else: sourceforge.net), then we can point that out. And if a project starts, falters, and ultimately becomes defunct - then we clean it up and remove it. cheers, steve -- stephen lau // stevel at opensolaris.org | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss --- message truncated --- Marc Hamilton Sun Microsystems Inc. Phone (310)607-2450
