On 4/13/10 11:25 AM, Octave Orgeron wrote: > I totally agree. The OGB needs to make a stand on this. Either we get answers > from Oracle or the OGB needs to separate the OpenSolaris Community from > Oracle and be truly autonomous. That means we get the development of > OpenSolaris completely out in the open and let the community run it, not > Oracle. While I would like to believe that Oracle is just unsure of how to > handle the OpenSolaris community, they've had plenty of time to think these > things over before the acquisition completed. It's not like Oracle wasn't > already calling the shots beforehand inside Sun anyways.
Here is where I want to be careful. Asking for autonomy at this juncture would be very foolish I think. If they grant it, they will essentially expect us to fork and re-establish the community without Sun/Oracle resources. That means the website goes, communication is severed, employees are instructed not to putback to the autonomous codebase, etc. I think it would go very very badly and we'd essentially help kill the community. The size of the community at present is pretty small and relatively inactive. Support for Nexenta, Belenix, etc, is orders of magnitude less so. These projects are productive and active, but the numbers are tiny compared to the official community. Add it all up and I think we have little reason to think that an autonomous community would really have any real support unless we get a sudden and massive influx of contributing developers. So it is, imho, a non-starter. - The point I'm making is not that we bang on Oracle's door... but rather that we bang on the door of our own community groups. For the OGB to request an update from the Indiana CG for a report concerning the delays. Thus trying to prove that we are in some way self regulating. Think about it. Who at Oracle would answer us? Some PR person? A marketing person? John Fowler? The engineers are members of the OpenSolaris community and leaders in our CG's. We should get answers from them, from within. And, conversely, Oracle should speak to us through our own ranks. benr. _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
