Brandorr wrote: > Tony, > > From my understanding, projects can be promoted to communities, but > communities can not be demoted to projects. > > That being the case, you might consider a third approach to getting up > and runnning quickly. Seek approval from the Xen community for a new > project "ldom". This is the fastest path to getting up and running > quickly, as it only involves approval at the CG level. At a latter date, > ldom could be promoted to a full community, or moved into the > virtualization community as a project (or set of projects).
Our request is for full community status. At some future date if the Xen and Zones communities agree we can work towards merging to a single virtualization community. Right now we have shipping product we want to open for community involvement - that's not the Xen community or the Zones community. cheers, ash. > > -Brian > > On 8/7/07, *Tony Shoumack* <Tony.Shoumack at sun.com > <mailto:Tony.Shoumack at sun.com>> wrote: > > Hi All, > > There has been a fairly robust discussion regarding the various > approaches > to virtualization communities at OpenSolaris, the complexities around > complementary/orthogonal technologies, and the somewhat multi-faceted > structure of LDoms in terms of technology layers and their various > status' > of open-source (Hypervisor, Solaris drivers and LDoms Manager). > > Combining these into an overall virtualization community is certainly > the > most logical end-game. > > However, as a starting point could we look at putting together an LDoms > community as a stand-alone - similar to XEN, Zone etc.. This will give > some point of focus as we move towards opensource for LDoms and once in > place, look at the best way to roll all up as part of a larger > virtualization community in the longer term? > > Cheers, > Tony > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Tony Shoumack | LDoms Field Programs Engineer > Sun Microsystems | SPARC Platform Software (Australia) > Ext. x(70)58377 | Tel. +618 8414 9377 | Mobile. +614 1467 6188 > > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org <mailto:ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org> > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > <http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss> > >
