On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:58:03AM -0700, Dan Price wrote:
> I would like to propose a new community called "Gardeners" based on
> some recent discussions on opensolaris-code. [1,2]
>
> The mission of the community is simple: raise the overall code quality of
> the system.
>
> The intention of the community is to provide a nexus for a group of people
> who are already active in the community and to attract new talent who
> share our values. The technical scope of the community is roughly:
>
> - Automated code checking (lint, cstyle, check_rpath, etc.)
> - Care and feeding of the build process
> - Retiring obsolete subsystems
> - Other types of code cleanup
>
> While this community has some similarity to the Linux "kernel janitors"
> [3] project, our focus will be more on structural changes than on code
> examination ("we're not here to sweep up after your broken project"). The
> community expects that it will necessarily have some overlap with the
> OS/Net community and with the Tools community.
>
> [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=12619&tstart=15
> [2] http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=12928&tstart=0
> [3] http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/
>
> Thanks,
>
> -dp
+1
Dave
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