Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > My concerns here stem more from the fact that SunCluster is not a part > of OpenSolaris, nor of Solaris. If the intent is to integrate support > for HA clustering into OpenSolaris proper through a series of projects > aimed at incorporating the needed support into ON and other > consolidations, then improving that work over time, a Community Group > definitely sounds like the correct abstraction. If the intent is just > to capitalise on OpenSolaris as another venue for marketing a Sun > product (open source or not) and "capturing developers", then I don't > really feel it's appropriate at all. But in the latter case, a > project would be no more appropriate, whether in some Incubator > Community Group or any other. And while a project usually has code > (or, more generally, artifacts) it produces for aggregation and > integration by distributors, a Community Group does not. So it's fine > for this Group to have no code initially; it will presumably sponsor > projects which do. > > I suppose the core of my question, then, is this: would it be this > Community Group's intent to enhance and improve support, via projects, > for HA clustering in OpenSolaris? Or would its intent be to itself > manage and distribute additional source (perhaps as an additional > consolidation, perhaps in some other as yet undefined structure) > providing that support?
Nice clarification, thanks Keith. My personal opinion is, regardless of which scenario it turns out to be (from your last paragraph), either would be fine for opensolaris.org It sounds like currently it is the latter: Managing and distributing additional source that is not yet integrated into Sun Solaris; but if the source is available via *OpenSolaris* (whether it's classified as a consolidation or not), then it can be picked up by additional OpenSolaris distributions for inclusion in their respective distribution. i.e.: Belenix Clustering Edition or Nexenta HA or something whizzy and markety like that. cheers, steve -- stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development
