I've been waiting for this mail for a long time. :)
I agree completely with Cyril, as a storage nut I'd upgrade Network
Storage to HIGH. Leveraging those elements in OpenSolaris can really
help hilite some interesting technology and provide some fun
oppertunities for the project.
(Incidently, if someone can slip the Sun iSCSI Target Implementation
into Network Storage I'd be eternally greatful.)
But, stepping back, I should point out that we don't know whats in these
consolidations beyond what we can surmise based on the title. Having an
idea of exactly what is in each consolidation would be immensely helpful
and informative, not just for OpenSolaris but for Solaris users curious
about how the product comes together.
Reguarding Xorg, SFW and JDS/GNOME; I strongly believe that there should
be no (or little) reason to open source these as they are already open
sourced projects. The work that Sun has done on either of these should
be contributed back to the projects and made avalible in an open
repository (ftp will do) for any instances of work not accepted by the
project in question. I guess there are some bits of JDS that Sun might
not want to give back to GNOME, but it all looks pretty standard GNOME
to me minus the theme and images, although I'm not a JDS guy myself and
my be misunderstanding.
DevPro is essentual, thats what Joerg has needed and I think several of
us have been waiting for before implementing additional distros.
I'd love to see all of the installation tools open sourced. I can't
think of any reason that they would want to be protected. I'm assuming
the actual installer is in "Install: Rest of the consolidation", which
I'd love to see, although I'll agree low priority is probly most
appropriate.
What concerns me is Admin Tools being low priority. What admin tools
are we talking about? If its SMC and the admins GUIs, then I could care
less.
I'd also personally bump the docs to high so that people can start
ramping up to get involved more closely with the doc effort.
The CCD is, of course, a whole diffrent matter. Personally, I'd drop it
to low.
benr.
Karyn Ritter wrote:
I've pulled together my preliminary thoughts on the relative priorities
of open sourcing the other Solaris consolidations, and would like you
all to comment on the list and priorities below.
These priorities are not temporally influenced: we did not list
consolidations as a "HIGH" priority just because they will be available
next and items that are "HIGH" may not be available for quite some time.
The priority should be a reflection of how important the
code/functionality is to the community, and I'm sure I didn't get it all
right. The goal of this is to give everyone a sense of what the
priorities for the program should be.
Feedback by next week (9/13) would be appreciated. We'll be rolling this
into a status dashboard that will be posted externally in the coming
weeks, so there will be opportunities to adjust the priorities moving
forward. Stay tuned for more information.
Thanks,
Karyn
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Consolidation Priority
------------------------------------------ --------
Sun Java System Application Server LOW
OS/Networking HIGH
Companion CD MED
JDS/GNOME MED
Network Storage MED
Solaris Freeware (SFW) MED
X Window System MED
Administrative Tools LOW
DEVPRO HIGH
Documentation: Open Source Solaris Man Pages HIGH
Client Network Services (CNS) LOW
G11N MED
Install: Packaging Tools HIGH
Install: Rest of the consolidation MED
Message Queue LOW
Networking
Documentation: Open Source Solaris MED
Documentation
Documentation: OpenSolaris Documentation MED
Project
Documentation: OpenSolaris Resource Site MED
Sun Hardware Partners (SHWP) LOW
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) No plans to open source
J2SE No plans to open source
OpenWindows No plans to open source
SPARC Graphics (OpenGL and device drivers) No plans to open source
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