Peter Buckingham wrote:
Finally, I'm not trying to pressure anyone into giving a +1. We have a
complicated system in Honeycomb, we believe that we have useful things
to offer the OpenSolaris community in the way we have embedded Solaris
into a distributed storage cluster.
This proposal sounds like it has several interesting things
in it all mixed together:
A potential OpenSolaris project under an Embedded
Solaris/Appliances community for the stuff you have
done to make the Honeycomb Appliance,
A potential archival storage server community/project,
A potential archival storage client/API community/project,
A Sun product that combines all the above, and
A desire to expose your work to people outside of Sun.
You seem to be lacking a few important things, though:
A vision/roadmap for an open community that is more than
a "Sun Honeycomb Product Enthusiast Group", and
An indication that such a community could succeed;
that your product group (with its internal politics...)
is willing/able to move outside and delegate leadership
and responsibility to non-Sun employees.
Your current proposal sounds more like "we've got a cool product
and we want to create a developer community around it" than the
more traditional open source "here is all the code for this cool
thing we did - play with it, build your own versions, and, oh, by
the way, if you feel motivated, come work with us to make it better
for everyone".
-John
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