Well said John. This is my expectation as well.
-- mark
John Plocher wrote:
Erast Benson wrote:
I didn't say we are dead community. :-) And I said almost zero
participation from outside of Sun
What are your expectations here? That at some point in the
future, more than 25% of the contributions will come from
outside of Sun? >50%? >75%? 100%?
This community is intended to be inclusive of both Sun and non-Sun
engineers; in my mind, it would be a disaster to have an OpenSolaris
community where there was little or no Sun engineering presence.
That would turn OpenSolaris into one of those worthless "toss it
over the wall and see if it survives" debacles.
My expectations are pretty modest:
I don't expect individual contributers to take on huge projects,
though there will always be exceptional people who do the
impossible - and make it look easy!
I expect lots of people (inside and outside of Sun) to take on
and be successful at simple things - bugfixes, low hanging
fruit, etc.
Being pragmatic, I believe that it takes a long term commitment
(meaning money and people) to do non-trivial projects, and as such,
implies corporate backing - Sun's or Apple's or ....
All open source efforts stratify into tiers: Core leaders, Core
"doers", Peripheral "doers", Talkers and Watchers. OpenSolaris
is no different.
I expect that this will show itself in the beginning as
Most community members will be content to sit back and watch
Some will be vocal and want to be heard on the various mailing lists
A few will get involved with the code
Fewer still will actually submit bugfixes and simple RFEs
A relative handful will get involved, start taking charge, make
waves, etc
A dozen or less will succeed and become leaders.
This isn't "just" an OpenSolaris viewpoint; it holds true for all the
other
open source efforts I am or have been involved with as well.
-John
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