Ghee Teo writes: > C. Bergstr?m wrote: > > Thanks for the support Alexander.. I think the reception from those > > outside Sun is quite positive so far. > > > +1 from me. Another one from inside Sun :)
He's gotten several +1s from inside Sun (including one from me), and, as far as I can tell, nobody posting from a sun.com account has said otherwise, at least publicly. That he's still qualifying that statement seems quite strange to me. In any event, I think he's fixing a problem that doesn't actually exist, removing barriers that are purely imaginary. If you want to make changes in the code -- go ahead. Knock yourself out. Compile and distribute (or not) that code as you see fit. You can also share your changes on hg.opensolaris.org with fairly minimal overhead; there's just enough of a fog-a-mirror test there to make sure we don't have a pile of p0rn and ripped software repositories set up by bad guys. The part of the process that has overhead occurs only _IF_ you choose to integrate into the common gate. That requires review (sometimes multiple kinds of review, depending on the kind of change) and testing, so that the common gate doesn't just become a cesspool. If the request is to create a random project to do something possibly interesting to zero or more people, then +1. Go for it, even if the result is a long-lived fork. If the request here really is for the common ON gate to become a cesspool, though, I'd have to give a -1 to that. I don't think anyone could possibly benefit from such a result, even the original requester. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
