Hey, Josh Hurst wrote: > On 1/31/07, Stephen Harpster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm the first to agree that the transition to Mercurial, getting the >> source outside Sun's firewall, is going slower than I want. > > How do you want to stimulate the growth of the Opensolaris community? > That may be more important right now. Opensolaris.org remains a small > fraction, if not the smallest, out of the Open Unix cake composed from > NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly, OpenBSD, Darwin, Linux and Opensolaris and > I don't see it GROWING. Just the same people all the time. The request > sponsor list doesn't grow much either in terms of new contributors > (just the part with the unsponsored items grows). Just the same people > all the time.
Give us a break, OpenSolaris is only barely out the door - there's still a *huge* amount of work to do before things can head in the right direction. It takes an infinitely large time and work to bootstrap a community - for most cases it's not an overnight thing. Fortunately OpenSolaris has some fantastic technology, and best of all some amazingly talented people to tempt many a developer and general contributor towards the project. There may never be a community phenomenon quite like Linux in terms of numbers and the creation of a grass roots environment. Glynn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
