David J. Orman writes: > The truth of the situation, is, right now OSOL is not > self-sustaining (nor anywhere close) and it is > maintained/operated/successful because of @sun people. I'm not
I'm not sure that's an entirely fair comment. There are several other distributions, and we don't tell them how to do what they do. It's fair to say that the processes that manage the source base are still incomplete, but you can join the 'tools' community if you'd like to help work on that problem. > saying nobody is contributing except @sun folk, that is absolutely > not true. Just the majority of development of the code itself is > @sun folk. In other words, if Sun suddenly decided OSOL is only a > code dump, I'd be at their mercy, and all of my work would have been > for nothing. *That* is why I asked for some sort of official-ish > response from Sun, because reality as it is NOW, is Sun's We've had many official declarations about our intent and direction from the highest levels of the company. If you're not moved by those, then I doubt that anyone here can help. > opinion/choice is the deciding factor at this point. Sun also > controls SX/Solaris, and since they are my primary interest, I > needed to know what OSOL means to them, so I can determine > if/where/how I should apply myself. I'm rather surprised to hear that there could be some question about what it means to us. Open Solaris _is_ the future. It's what we use to produce future Solaris releases. It is the source base that represents Solaris (as well as a number of other distributions). Right now, the open processes are just a year old, and they certainly need to grow quite a bit and become more robust, but the change is rather fundamental. It's also a community. We don't have absolute say here, so saying we do is missing the point. We do have say over what ends up shipped as Solaris proper -- our distribution -- but not over the community as a whole or what it does. The CAB, which is not just Sun, does that. So, if your aim is to influence the components in Open Solaris, the ones that will be used by multiple distributions (including Solaris itself), then this is the right place to be, along with all the communities and projects that make up Open Solaris. If, instead, you need support for Sun products (Solaris or otherwise), then you need to talk to our support folks. Or, more generally, if you want to influence the direction of one of the distributions in particular, you'll need to talk to the folks who produce that distribution. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
