John P> This leads me to believe that we need a different mechanism for John P> incorporating these OSS bits into [Open]Solaris. Instead of forking John P> a copy, massaging it privately, stuffing it into a SUNW* package and John P> shipping the binaries with a Solaris distro, we should investigate John P> how to push the packaging and delivery out and up.
Agreed, at least partially. There needs to be a different way that OpenSolaris deals with OSS in order to accomodate all of what's out there, the desire to have more of it available, the lack of resources in maintaining all of it, the abilities of distributions to choose what to include and what not to include, etc. It seems this discussion has veered fairly far afield from Stephen's original proposal - I'd like to suggest that something like sfwnv-discuss at opensolaris.org might be a better place for this interesting discussion. dsc
