S Destika wrote:
I will never expect a huge number of people
developing OpenSolaris
itself.
I would consider that as a wasted opportunity and potential.
I think his point was that, even if there were 1000 non-Sun developers
contributing to OpenSolaris, the number of application developers,
students and users "participating" in the OpenSolaris community
would still dwarf them.
As I said earlier, there is a pyramid here; the same one you will find
in those Linux kernel numbers: lots of small bugfixers, many module
creators, some systems owners and few heavy lifters.
You will get no disagreement from me (or I would suspect, *anyone* else)
that the current OpenSolaris/ON development process (intent + deployed
externally usable tools) makes it hard for the people at the top of the
pyramid, extremely difficult for those in the middle, and absolutely
impossible for the majority at the bottom. And that this is a high
priority problem that needs to be addressed ASAP.
[As an aside, I would suggest that those of us who have been
dominating this discussion need to shut up and listen to other
voices for a while]
-shutting up for now,
John
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