On 8/17/05, Marilyn Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We plan to push development for the Solaris Companion out into the community, > to serve as a test case for community development for other areas of Solaris. > The Companion is the supplemental collection of open source software > distributed with Solaris. > > The source code repository, the gate, will be external as will the > gatekeeper, the person who manages the source base and does the builds. > > Why the Companion? > > 1. It's the simplest case we have. It's all open source. It's > supplemental to Solaris and consequently not subject to reviews by internal > architecture committees, a rigid bi-weekly delivery schedule, or complex > dependencies. We can get it out quickly. As yet, no release date has been > established. > > 2. Building development communities > > Several external communities already exist around open source for > Solaris. Some discussions on opensolaris.org have suggested that these > communities work more closely together. We hope the release of the Companion > source base will encourage this cooperation. > > 3. Initial Structure > > Solaris management has asked Steve Christensen to be the gate > keeper. Steve has maintained the sunfreeware.com site for many years. The > source base will be the Companion contents for Solaris 10 minus those > packages that are now included in Solaris 11 or those packages considered no > longer important. Requests for upgrading existing packages and/or adding new > packages will reviewed by a team of Sun engineers. Interested external people > will be invited to join this team. The goal is equal representation. The > review team will follow all applicable Open Solaris processes. Many > implementation details remain to be determined.
sorry this is opensolaris, and not the ON distrobution, sun doesn't have the right to pick the "gate keeper" of a community without a discussion on the subjec and possibly a vote, this seems very underhanded. I value sun choices for my OS, but I have found sun's choices for opensource software to be lacking, It is time to increase choices and keep the community growing not for sun to steam roll the community. I for one will not support a community of freeware that is created without a full discussion and a vote. James Dickens. > > marilyn > ------- > Marilyn Shoemaker > Solaris Program Manager > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
