John Plocher writes: > Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > If you want to create an OpenSolaris reference distribution, or any > > distribution that advertises itself as having that status, > > Why does Indiana have to meet these requirements when Nexenta, Belinix, > MartUX, Schillix, SX, and all the other OS.o distros don't? > > Why are you throwing up logistical barriers to this effort instead > of facilitating them? > > Or is it that we simply /like/ eating our young?
Wow, that's *really* over the top. I don't think anyone is saying that you can't create a distribution yourself without bothering with any project, community, or governing board. You can. Knock yourself out. What I understand Keith to be saying (and what I agree with here) is that if you're going to do that in the name of OpenSolaris itself -- not just "PlocherX" but "OpenSolaris Reference Release" -- then that's logically something that ought to be a deliberate decision of the community, and not something that "just happens" or (worse) "happens because some executive at Sun says so." I'm not sure it's necessarily an unmitigated good thing to have a single privileged reference release (what happens to distributions that decide to innovate in a different direction?), but, as a community member, I'd like to see something more concrete about what the reference will contain before deciding whether to endorse it. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
