Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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? It's in the RSS feed, but we had problem with the feed updating for a few days and when we fixed it there were 7 entires ahead of it, moving it off the home page. Derek
> > -- 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. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ogb-discuss mailing list >> ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division
