Shawn Walker wrote: > On 02/11/2007, Nicholas Solter <Nicholas.Solter at sun.com> wrote: >> whole. I can speak only for myself, of course, but I personally think that: >> >> 1. We desperately need an official OpenSolaris distribution.
I'm not sure I agree with this. An official, community-developed distro is helpful, sure, especially to engage new users and application developers and non-technical people. But to say this is a desperate need is a bit of an over statement. Until recently, OpenSolaris was a source community, and it existed quite nicely as a source community. Yet some people criticized it as confusing. Ok, now it has a binary distro. Are we any less confusing? >> 2. The Indiana project is going in the right direction to be the >> OpenSolaris distribution. I agree with the intent of Indiana and the use of the name, but I think the community reaction demonstrates that consensus has not been reached. That consensus needs to be there. >> 3. I have no problem with Indiana calling itself the "OpenSolaris >> Developer Preview" right now. I agree with the use of the name, but I'd really like for the community to agree and share in the use of the name. I've said this before internally and externally, if the community can't share in the use of the name than this is a mistake. >> I suspect that there are other community members who share my views but >> aren't speaking out for whatever reason. If there are more supporters they have to assert their voices. We can't assume that there is support for something in the absence of evidence. Perhaps, as many have suggested, a formal vote is the only way at this point. So, if that support is actually there, it will be demonstrated in a vote among the Members (core contributors). Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
