To OGB, Sun/Oracle mgmt Please consider to fix the confusion what project Indiana has started. As I said previously, when project Indiana was created, this was a mistake and it was way too confusing for outside users, the entire community and to Sun itself.I sent at that time a short proposal where Sun could have used opensolaris.org as the main source of the operating system and let the community build itself the reference distro. Im sending again this one now, last time.
Cheers, Stefan In order to fix current open issues with OpenSolaris distribution consider implementing the following: 1. The community itself should create and maintain a reference distribution, called XXX with help from vendor, Oracle. The distribution and the content published under its site should be outside Oracle's premises and control. This way the community can govern and manage itself without creating pressures to vendor or other parties. Example: RedHat - Fedora. Fedora is a open source project hosted outside of RedHat maintained by community but sponsored by RedHat. "The Fedora Project is maintained and driven by the community and sponsored by Red Hat. This is a community maintained site. Red Hat is not responsible for content." http://fedoraproject.org/ http://fedoraproject.org/en/sponsors 2. OGB should govern the new distro and maintain constant communication towards vendor. The vendor should support this initiative by dedicating developers and resources. OGB should engage and collaborate with other hdw vendors, in order to attract new users and sponsors. This way the project will grow and the community will stay around happy. 3. Both sides will benefit from this clear model and focus on their priorities. Currently model does not work and simple creates bad publicity, fud. Implementing current model, the vendor can entirely focus on their business model, committing from time to time source code and participating with engineers to this initiative. The community as well will benefit having their own governing rules and releases as they please. In my opinion this is the way to ensure the survival of OpenSolaris, which Sun unfortunattely did not implement correctly. I hope current vendor might listen and proper handle this problem. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
