On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:21:04AM -0800, Ch? Kristo wrote:
> James is right, look if you want to track pilot users just make them
> register. Seriously...creating your own little secret society isn't going to
> achieve anything.
I don't mean to pile on here, but I completely disagree. Anyone who has
ever birthed any technology into the world knows that you would much prefer
to start small and get the kinks worked out before you run the risk of
giving the wrong first impression to a larger audience. We have done
this with _everything_ in Solaris, including OpenSolaris itself. Does
anyone think that we should have launched OpenSolaris without a pilot
program? Yeah, didn't think so...
Personally, I think it's a great idea to get this right before it is
slashdotted. This is a hugely important development for both Debian and
OpenSolaris users: each will be granted an entirely new latitude of
choice -- which is a Good Thing for both Debian and OpenSolaris regardless
of the specific choices that are made. But it must make the right first
impression, and a pilot program is the right way to assure that.
So if you want to help the GNU/Solaris folks, send mail to Nexenta as
directed and get a user ID and password. Given the tone of the site, I
would find it hard to believe that anyone would be turned away...
As a final note, let me add that having taken my first peek at
gnusolaris.org, it looks really, really promising -- so much so that a
primary concern will be withstanding the inevitable slashdottery when
it does go live. It is, as we say, a good problem to have...
- Bryan
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