On Wednesday 19 April 2006 04:25 pm, Eric Boutilier wrote: > I'm not sure if that's what Alan is pushing for or not, but one things > for sure: It seems way more logical to speculate that a significant > percentage of volunteers in such an endeavor would be Sun employees as > well as non-Sun employees.
I'm absolutely sure I wasn't and in fact I think I wanted to work with the community and to have the same sources for Sun and the Community with a common set of libs for all interested parties to use. I don't see how that is only trying to meet the community needs. Phil lost me on that one. > When it comes to an un-supported-by-Sun set of freeware, I see > absolutely no reason to have a Sun-blessed -- as opposed to > community-blessed -- set of freeware. I see no reason either, and I would make that one of my points, that I more so want one common set for all to use, Sun included. > I think it's important here not to miss the important boundry between > un-supported-by-Sun freeware (CCD, blastwave, etc.) and Sun-supported > freeware (SFW, JDS, X, etc). With that in mind, the thing I think > (FWIW) we need is this: an un-supported-by-Sun freeware set that also > serves as a "bullpen" for stuff to be migrated to Sun-supported freeware > -- e.g. migration to the SFW, JDS, or X, consolidations. (With the > volunteers who are working the bullpen coming from, as I said, Sun as > well as non-Sun ranks.) > > Maybe this new "bullpen" project needs to be built on the CSW project, > maybe the CCD project, maybe the JDS (spec-files-extra) project, maybe > something else, maybe a hybrid... > > In any case, I'm really looking forward to that being figured out ASAP. I think I'm on the same page with you Eric, and I am interested in trying to get the various people to at least lay out their needs and/or to work with Sun to figure out how that can be accomplished. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
