On Jan 27, 2008 4:04 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote: > I'm actually not sure I agree, and maybe my opinion touches on what Peter has > already expressed that the Community Group structure has failed. I'd actually > like to see *less* of a bond between Projects and Community Groups. There > should > be an extremely low barrier to entry for project creation - rather than having > to even propose a project, any contributor should be able to JFDI. The project > will succeed depending on the number of people that gather around it and their > determination to complete it.
This seems to be similar to the approach of sourceforge and similar sites. At such a time as a hare brain idea turns into something worth integrating into the main source tree, this may be the time that a community adopts the project. I'm not so sure that a project like Indiana would have gained much support (even enough for a project to start up) if it hadn't been a priority set by Sun execs. To a certain extent Belinix seems to be the first run at Indiana in that it merges the strengths of Solaris and the userland found on various Linux distros. As far as I can tell, Belenix uses no opensolaris.org infrastructure. I can't help but think there is a reason. I would really like to see that any contributor (or participant with a core contributor sponsor?) can get the resources needed to host "efforts" of various types. These efforts may need a source repository, virtual web host (including non-static pages), mailing lists, build/test farm access, wikis, blogs, etc. The one requirement would be that the content would need to relate to OpenSolaris. Running an ecommerce site (that doesn't benefit opensolaris) or serving up family photo albums would not be allowed. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
