Hi Peter, I totally agree on the need to involve the community in the future design of OpenSolaris. I'd even go so far as to say that the community should be involved in creating an official OpenSolaris Standard the defines a whole range of things (packaging, proper locations for things, interfaces, etc.). Plus the community should be involved in setting the roadmap for OpenSolaris. Empowering the community like that will go a long way to getting developers involved.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> To: Garrett D'Amore <garr...@damore.org> Cc: ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Thu, April 15, 2010 3:22:18 PM Subject: Re: [ogb-discuss] Call for Action On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garr...@damore.org> wrote: > > PS: In my own personal opinion, there is almost zero *net* value in the > "Open Development" process where we run open ARC cases and invite external > developers to partake in product development. I would hazard a guess that > the cost of this effort has far exceeded any benefit realized as a result of > this effort. On the other hand, I think *Open Source* makes incredibly good > sense for Oracle and Open Solaris. Customers and ISVs benefit from being > able to probe into the guts, it still can serve educational purposes, and > probably doesn't cost the company much money. Its my hope that Oracle will > continue to keep doing this. On the other hand, I won't much miss the whole > Open Development thing if it goes away -- even though I'm probably one of > the more frequent participants from Oracle in the open development aspects > of Open Solaris. I disagree. I'm not going to argue that open development has been a success, but the failure of it to produce results is largely because it hasn't happened, not because it's fundamentally a bad idea. Open development means far more than allowing external bug fixes to the corporate codebase. It includes participation all the way back to the design. The community is a hugely valuable resource that could be used to help drive better design, and thus fewer (expensive) mistakes in implementing wrong solutions. Having involvement at the design stage is also crucial to getting buy-in and thus future involvement of the community. People are far more likely to work on - and evangelise - something that they have a stake in; I see this as a critical reason for lack of community involvement. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
