Now all of what you said makes sense when you think of it from Sun's PoV - all is well when it comes to Sun wanting to enforce control over the whole OpenSolaris thing. This is exactly how a company will drive it's product development.
If you cared to come out and peek into a general oss coder's PoV - all these bureaucratic things make much less sense if any. And the problem that I have with Sun's processes is more that they don't create a sense of ownership in the OSS developer. People aren't just going to come and work if they have no motivation - motivation comes significantly from owning and being able to drive something. This old school thought of Sun in head master's role and devs in student role just doesn't cut it. Linux succeeded not because of quality motivated people to enable RedHat/SuSE do something under their control - it succeeded (and succeeds) because of lots of motivated people who trust Linus (Linus refuses to be employed by any of the vendors - exactly because of this reason, he doesn't want to break the trust.) Other lovely thing about Linux is that you are free to do what you like - and not be driven by what Linus or Andrew think. Ok, so you didn't like GIT for some reason, take Mercurial or do your own SCM and move along - work continues to happen on the kernel at the same pace. I think Sun is moving towards a non-scalable model of centralized control. Instead you should look at something like a "Development Tree" and "Official Solaris Tree". The Dev tree should be all owned and driven by community - People will put in whatever interests them and whatever they feel is the need of the hour. Sun can choose to pick up stuff from there to go into the Official Solaris tree - whatever their customers need. Otherwise this whole thing will be very limited - to Sun's ideas of what is correct and wrong and to Sun's limited customer interests. This considering we don't want 10 forks of OpenSolaris - if that isn't the case nothing is lost - people will still fork and do whatever interests them. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
