Heya, > > But we're all in agreement of that's where we want to take the project > > long term? I guess I'd like to see someone state whether this is or > > isn't a desired long term goal? > > I'll chime in. > > First, just to be clear, I'm assuming that we're talking about a > reference core operating system release bearing the name OpenSolaris...
Right - and I think there's a lot of value for that. I guess right now I feel there's a substantial amount of duplication of work getting a derivative distribution based on OpenSolaris. I'd like to see us getting a core workings of a distribution going and make it *really easy* to be able to create derivatives from there [see Debian/Ubuntu]. > I think the answer to your question is that nobody's sure yet. But your > question suggests another really good question: Should Sun be the body > to decide if/when such a thing is released and exactly what it's > composed of? I hope not. I think that even though the word OpenSolaris > is a trademark of Sun (and even though IANAM[1]), it's safe to assume > that a serious, CAB-backed community consortium could define and drive > such a project (a reference core OS bearing the name OpenSolaris). Absolutely not - I would very much hope that the CAB could, as you say, define and drive such a project along with the community, while respectfully keeping in touch with upstream Solaris to avoid divergence as much as possible. Glynn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
