Btw, how come NWS and the BusyBox project got front page announcement
billing, but the Tadpole Platform Support project and the Ports
Collection project did not?
-- Garrett
G N S wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 4/12/07, *Bill Sommerfeld* < sommerfeld at sun.com
> <mailto:sommerfeld at sun.com>> wrote:
>
> so, the recent announcement of the "busybox" project was woefully
> incomplete.
>
>
> I based the announcement on the precedence that has been set (project
> announcements that have been made by other projects). I request people
> to review some of the recent announcements listed below.
>
> New Tadpole Platform Support project open for business
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=28311&tstart=0
> <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=28311&tstart=0>
>
> New Project: OpenSolaris Ports Collection
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=28308&tstart=0
> <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=28308&tstart=0>
>
> OpenSolaris project: Network Storage
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27133&tstart=0
> <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27133&tstart=0>
>
> New OpenSolaris Project: Java kstats
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27132&tstart=0
> <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27132&tstart=0>
>
> New OpenSolaris Project: Mozilla DTrace
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27030&tstart=0
> <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27030&tstart=0>
>
> > Nowhere in the announcement does it say what busybox actually *IS*.
>
> While there are no elaborate details about the existing busybox
> project, the opening statement about the project in the announcement is:
> "This project is about providing busybox( www.busybox.net
> <http://www.busybox.net/>) equivalent on OpenSolaris."
>
> Which indicates the existing busybox with link reference.
>
> In the absence of any guidelines/templates, I believe it would be fair
> to say the level of details provided is as much if not more compared
> to most other project announcements that have been made. If those were
> acceptable so should it be the case with this one.
>
> The project announcement automation and the 1-pager template that are
> mentioned should help any *future* disparities.
>
> best regards
> Shiv
>
> ps: My mail to the list initially got reject instead of going to the
> moderation queue since I was not a member of the list. The list itself
> was not listed at opensolaris.org->forums. I had to figure out the url
> based on other mailing lists so that I could subscribe and respond.
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