Nicholas Solter wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > Stephen Lau wrote: >> Hi Nicholas, >> Thanks for the proposal, I have a few questions: >> >> 1) Is it necessary that you have the community group setup before your >> source code is available/published? I only ask because I'm not >> entirely comfortable with the idea of giving governance representation >> and voting grants to a community that doesn't yet have open code or >> open development. >> > > I believe that currently under opensolaris every project needs a > community. There don't seem to be any existing communities under which > HA Cluster technology would fit. So, yes, I think we do need a community > group before we can publish the source code. Please correct me if I'm > misunderstanding the rules. > > I promise that we will very soon have open code and open development -- > but first we need the community to be approved to get things started :-)
Fair enough, that seems fine to me. >> 2) What will the community's initial content be? Will it be entirely >> Sun Cluster focused, or will it be more generalised as the community >> name suggests? > > The initial content, as contributed from Sun, will be the source code > for Solaris Cluster. However, see the answer to your next question. > >> >> 3) Similar to #2, but more generally: will your community >> endorse/sponsor community work/projects focused on HA Clusters, but >> involving non-Sun Cluster code? > > Yes, we will definitely endorse and sponsor projects involving non-sun > Cluster code. We have no intention of making this an exclusive Sun > Cluster community. Good to hear. >> 4) Do you have a plan for involving non-Sun employees (i.e.: >> documentation, tutorials, code walk-throughs, etc.) to help bring them >> up to speed with your development process and source code? > > Yes. We certainly want to encourage non-Sun community involvement. We > will provide the kinds of documentation you mention, specifically > instructions for building the code, code walk-throughs, instructions for > contributing, etc. Additionally, we are hoping to get a cluster > presentation accepted for the Sun Tech Days OpenSolaris day for next > year, and are planning to meet with various OpenSolaris user groups. And > we are open to suggestions for any other efforts that we can undertake > to help build a community. Also good to hear. Thanks for the prompt response. You have my +1 vote. cheers, steve -- stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development
