Dana H. Myers wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> John Plocher wrote:
>>
>>> In my mind, it boils down to a question of why we would require, say,
>>> the
>>> source for Firefox to be copied from the upstream community to a SFW
>>> source
>>> tree, compiled by SFW maintainers, and pushed to a repository, rather
>>> than
>>> having the firefox community itself create ips packages and push them
>>> out
>>> directly?
>>>
>>
>> Because the firefox community has no interest in doing so. The only
>> reason
>> Solaris or OpenSolaris builds of firefox appear on Mozilla.org is because
>> Sun's browser team downloads the source, builds them, and pushes them
>> back
>> to the community.
>>
> Perhaps this is a naive question, but doesn't that mean the Sun browser
> team is functioning
> as a de facto member of the Firefox community?
Yes, and for some communities, Sun is actively participating, but we're not
going to do that for all of the communities around the hundreds or someday
even thousands of open source modules we ship.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
