On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, 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?
Are you sure? To my knowledge anything that shows up on the announce Jive forum gets posted there automatically, as it's just tied to the RSS feed. Eric > > -- 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 >
