Keith M Wesolowski wrote: >... >It's not bureaucracy (why does everyone think there's so much of it? >Do you know what the word actually means?) but a lack of adequate >infrastructure that makes contributing such a pain. I blame Sun for >this; its insistence on maintaining control of the infrastructure and >its tortuous legal and policy constraints are a main reason more >progress has not been made. That said, anyone could put together a >proposal to move all this outside Sun's control and accelerate the >process, yet no one has. It's unclear whether that's because of >laziness, lack of interest, or lack of means. > >
There are a number of things that need to happen here and they've been raised before (at least by myself): 1) move the opensolaris machinery (web server, repository, etc) away from being owned by Sun; 2) to achieve (1), create an opensolaris entity that can own pieces of hardware, etc; 3) in order to fund both (1) and (2), make an opensolaris entity that is a non profit organisation. If we were a true bona-fide opensource project and with a bit of luck, we can get a server into a back-bone ISP's colocation facility using 1RU or less of space. To what extent Sun is required to cooperate here, I don't know. But, now that OpenSolaris is open, if there were enough interested parties we could build a new distribution that we all worked on (with a new name) with the model *we* want and just leave OpenSolaris in Sun's hands. We can still pull in code from OS.o, after it gets mirrored there from nevada. Heck, maybe we participants should just do that anyway, rather than wait for Sun to work out what it wants to do with OS.o? Darren
