On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote: > Dear OS/Net crowd, > > I'm on this alias for over 2 months now. > > I signed up after having found good starting points at > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/ > and > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/ . > > Over time I noticed, that ? - ? very much unlike lists like > caiman-discuss or xwin-discuss ? - ? no actual development > communication is taking place here. > Then you shouldn't wonder, that only few are seriously joining you > (or: able to join you). You guys not only get all training for free, > but you also discuss everything, day in and day out. Unfortunately > behind your Firewalls. > > I like what Steven Lau has written in his blog a while ago: > http://whacked.net/2009/01/15/dear-sun-learn-to-trust-your-own-community/ > > Actually what is (not) going on here on this list (in contrast to > caiman, xwin and a small good selection of others) is fraud (towards > yourself and towards world). > Sure: The hg, commit logs, webrefs, cr's, ARC's are online. > But without moderation and with most of the developer's communication > being held behind closed doors it is not easy to participate. > I do this with a small bit: I improve fast-boot by adding an option to > it. More later. First let me discuss and develop it BEHIND MY CLOSED > DOORS. > > 2 days ago a very smart guy of you wrote me a polotical non-technical > message where he complained about mailing lists being too political > and not technical enough. > Isn't that funny? What did he do to improve the situation?
p.s. I will wait 2 days for a sufficiently verbose explanation and promised concrete steps for a solution according to the constitution. Afterwards the situation _will_ improve. > Nasdorovje, > -- > %martin bochnig >
