Erast Benson wrote:
I didn't say we are dead community. :-) And I said almost zero
participation from outside of Sun which is what currently our relative
numbers are by looking at ON consolidation. And yes, we are growing, but
not fast enough to me...
Sun's had a 20+ year head start in terms of getting people to contribute
to Solaris, I think we should be prepared to cut the external folks some
slack ;-)
And shouldn't the *community* be responsible for figuring out how to
grow itself? I see lots of comments about how if only SUNW did this
thing or that thing the community would grow. Why is it SUNW's
responsibility, shouldn't the OpenSolaris community be thinking of ways
to grow itself?
I would also comment that the people I've seen join the community are a
pretty impressive bunch - people who care and are trying to make a
significant contribution. There just isn't a huge pool of
People-Who-Can-Hack-On-An-OS out there for us to draw on. Sure there is
a load of other ways people can contribute, but at the moment the
barrier to participation is not insignificant. As has been said before,
that's something that we are trying to change, and yes it's taking
longer than any of us would really like.
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Alan Burlison
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