S Destika wrote:
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James C. McPherson wrote:
Hi Erast, I *really* do not understand why you appear to be
so concerned
about how large or extensive the OpenSolaris
community actually
is.
Yes, the number of those who would call themselves
part of the
OpenSolaris community is probably not as large as
Linux-adherents,
but who really cares? Why does it matter?
Well duh..! As a community project one of the measures of success is
definitely community participation and how big it is.
Certainly community participation is essential. Where I disagree
with you is on "big" -- quality quality quality over volume.
Forgive the expression, but we do *not* need a pissing contest of
"my community is bigger than yours therefore mine is better".
If you need reasons - better x86{_64} support, lots of drivers (as a
testament - I have till now failed to install Solaris on any of my 8
x86/64 machines - Linux runs just fine there and recognizes most hardware
thrown at it), quicker resolution of people's problems and addition of
new features/improvements (suspend/resume anyone?), new architecture
support - lots of reasons why OpenSolaris needs larger community. No? You
think what was not possible in last year without community participation
will be possible going forward without community? Do you think Sun
engineers are going to spend their time fixing Joe Random's problems?
You don't actually prove a point here. In a related thread
somebody argued that it was better to have "code that kinda
works" first, followed by "code that mostly works, on most
architectures" followed by "code that just works(tm)".
I believe that proposal got a big thwap in response, and
rightly so.
The size of an OSS community is irrelevant if the community
cannot provide quality code to resolve issues. I include
both bugs *and* RFEs in "issues".
I seriously doubt that if you researched the involvement of
Sun engineers in the OpenSolaris community -- and in the
general Solaris from well before OpenSolaris was even a twinkle
in some exec's eyes -- then you would not make that final,
throwaway and uninformed remark.
James C. McPherson
--
Solaris kernel software engineer
Sun Microsystems
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