On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Dennis Clarke <dcla...@blastwave.org> wrote: > >> Dennis, I understand your position. Its not a new one. Keith and I >> reached the same conclusion during the transition from CAB to OGB. > > I have always acted in ways that benefit the community. At the very least, > try to do the right thing. Look foolish, fall over, make mistakes, but try > and then get up and try again.
Dennis Clarke, if memory serves, then ... it serves. Quick reminder: Back then in November you had shrugged off all community-skepticism concerning so called Project I(A)Ndiana: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2007-November/author.html#Dennis%20Clarke [indiana-discuss] My VOTE Dennis Clarke dclarke at blastwave.org Fri Nov 2 11:48:50 PDT 2007 http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2007-November/002459.html You even published unmodified Sun-written Ad´s on your site: http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0061/index.html Sorry, but I cannot forget many things that happened here. cheri %martin bochnig >> HOWEVER, I have never believed we should simply throw our hands up in >> the air and roll over to die. My track-record has been clear: I would >> gladly reach out in vain and look rediculous doing so than standing by >> idle and doing nothing. Frankly the OGB to date has been a useless body >> that (due to some of its members) have actively opposed any action on >> the part of the community and pushed back on any pressure applied to the >> OGB Facilitator. > > No debate from me. > >> Back to the point.... OpenSolaris is a product of the Indiana, IPS, >> Distro, ON and other communities. The folks who are involved in closing >> the releases (Dr. Hahn, David Comay, and David Miner chiefly) are here >> in CG's. If the OpenSolaris project truly has absolutely no >> communication with those CG's then lets know that now. > > I think that they all work for Oracle now. They are bound by agreements to > Oracle Corporation. We have no reason to expect to hear from them at all > unless they are given the green light. > >> Oracle may not be talking, but they are watching! We must act! If >> Oracle does kill portions of the already bloodied OpenSolaris project >> they will support that decision by pointing to a community that didn't >> care, or participate, or reach out. >> >> You know a body is dead when it stops moving.... we can't stop moving. >> The delays in OpenSolaris 2010.03 are a sufficient reason to twitch. > > I started twitching weeks ago. I see a snv_137 has landed but no distro > based on it. Really, we as a community should be rolling our own by now > regardless. > > -- > Dennis Clarke > dcla...@opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris > dcla...@blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris > > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
