On 8/1/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> 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. > <snip> > 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.) >
As user of opensolaris.org, I see it as a one point stop for OpenSolaris *based* computing needs (not just restricted to ONNV/JDS/NWS). As a person wanting to start a project/community related to OpenSolaris, I would view opensolaris.org as the place that provides the infrastructure and more importantly a seamless way to integrate with other related communities/projects. This is a very positive aspect I have perceived about opensolaris.org as against other base platforms with a whole bunch of *related* technologies scattered all over the web. Ex: CompanionCD(/opt/sfw)/Indiana, etc are lot more than the base platform. Point is, please consider how it is being used and perceived. > 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?) > Need not already run, once setup the projects should work towards that (to work on atleast one of them). My 0.2cents best regards Shiv
