Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Joseph Kowalski wrote: > >> Speaking of how a "volunteer open *source* community works", >> this is a proposal about how a *binary* distribution should be constructed. >> This is Sun's decision or a decision about a future OpenSolaris >> reference distribution. Tell me again how a volunteer makes this >> distribution configuration decision. >> > > By participating in the OpenSolaris project, which now includes the > building of the OpenSolaris binary distributions. The OpenSolaris > world has changed from the days when distros were all someone else's > problem. Should Sun wish to change this in the future Solaris.next > fork off the OpenSolaris distro, they can - that choice is truly Sun's > to make - but the OpenSolaris 2008.05 and successor distros are being > built with the community, and thus volunteers can make changes like this. > We seem to be in a transition phase. The exact positioning of 2008.05 is still unclear, but probably it will be close to what you seem to believe. AT THE EXACT TIME as this case was submitted, the status of Nevada has been somewhat clarified. So, just maybe what you assert may be true, but the race to these conclusions may just be a little quick.
In either case, even if the decision isn't Sun's, its also not just Roland's. Something like this needs to be decided by some community process or body. Sure hope we have something like that. If not, its a sure recipe for disaster. Roland,... several times you referred to a discussion which I assume was on some OpenSolaris discussion alias. Which one? - jek3
