Stephen Lau wrote: > Darren Reed wrote: >> 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; > > While this is a noteworthy long-term goal, I fail to see what problems > this solves in the short-term. > > Who will own them? Who will maintain them? Who will be paid to > maintain them?
Who owns, runs and maintains kernel.org? Dare I suggest slashdot, sourceforge and even OSNews as examples here? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems
