Glynn Foster wrote:
Hey,
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:53 -0700, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
We've made the Sun OpenSolaris Program Team's activities transparent on
a new list: program-team at opensolaris dot org. You can subscribe to
follow the conversations: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/discussions/
The OpenSolaris Program Team (p-team) consists of people across Sun who
are involved in the opening of Solaris. So basically, this is another
team that will start working in the open. Non-Sun community members are
welcome to comment on p-team conversations and meeting notes and to
suggest items and issues for consideration.
Rocking! Thanks heaps for this - maybe you can explain a little bit
about the types of discussions that would be appropriate for this list?
[Of course I have a fair idea of the answer, but I think it would be
helpful for others to know].
Well, at least initially people outside Sun and even across Sun but
outside our own program team will get to see more of our operations as
we continue opening what's in Solaris.
This p-team of ours is focusing on future stuff mostly. So, currently we
are talking specifically about new consolidations that are coming to
OpenSolaris, policy and content discussions about the web site, road map
issues, release plans, etc. There are multiple representatives on the
team from at least a dozen groups and consolidations across Solaris. We
sometimes have discussions all week long on all sorts of important
program issues that should absolutely be taking place in the open.
As part of the opening of p-team, we simultaneously closed two
additional internal lists that were created way back before even the
pilot program and ran throughout the pilot -- but internally only. There
were hundreds of Sun people on those lists, so we deleted the lists and
pointed the people to OpenSolaris. Even though those two closed lists
weren't that active anymore, the lists themselves were no longer
necessary on an open project. Also, the post-launch conversations that
did take place on them only served to keep conversations internal. My
feeling on this is simple: if it's not confidential, open it or kill it.
If it can't stand the light of day, it should go away. So, after some
discussion, we opened one list and killed two.
Jim
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Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
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