Keith M Wesolowski <keith.wesolowski at sun.com> wrote:
> > Dr. Fielding has spoken of this in the past at ASF, where they regularly
> > look for Sub-Projects that take on a life of their own and need to be
> > uplifted into full Project status.
>
> Yes. But this seems like evidence of the exact wrong idea (for us):
> that once a piece of software becomes large enough to "stand on its
> own", it should be split apart from its context of creation into some
> independently governed thing. This is the exact opposite of what we
> should be trying to accomplish: getting people to write
> better-integrated software that functions properly as part of a larger
> whole. Instead of creating a new CG, we should be creating another
> directory under usr/src/lib or usr/src/uts. That distinction matters
> because we want a maintainable gate, not because the new thing should
> stop being a part of the same product organised by the same
> institutions.
It seems that you missunderstand things. Projects and distributions initiated
from outside Sun currently need to do things separated from the Sun development
because the Sun development does not cooperate with those projects.
When the OpenSolaris project started, I thought that there was an intention for
cooperation. What we curretly see is that Sun throws sources over the wall with
a typical frequency of once every 14 days. The needs of projects outside Sun
are ignored and even small ready to integrate patches are partially waiting
years in order to make it into Sun's source. This is what causes these projects
to collect own patch sets and to spend time in adopting to a changing Sun
source.
I don't believe that a constitution helps to avoid this undesirable behavior.
Changing an existing constitution would not help before the intended
collaboration is not internalized by a sufficient amount of people.
J?rg
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