* Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-15 15:41]: > Hi Sherry, > > Sherry Moore wrote: > > The Intel Project is now live at > > > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/intel-platform > > > > It is a collaboration site for enhancing Solaris performance on Intel > > platforms, enabling and utilizing new features on Intel processors, > > accelerating driver availability, and other development efforts for > > making Solaris the Unix operating system of choice on Intel platforms. > > > > Discussion will take place on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please see project page for details. > > I realize that you may be unable to answer these questions, but > there's a couple of things that kind of bug me a little bit - > > o Core Developers Mailing List > Subscription is restricted to people doing actual > coding or reviewing. Is this based on a social > restriction of wanting a list of good technical > content, purely legal that we can't talk about the code in > public, or otherwise? > > o onnv-intel: Anonymous push/pull is disabled. You must > either be a leader of this project (or a committer for the > onnv-intel repository) to push/pull. > > Neither of which feels very inclusive, and suggests that quite frankly, this > project might not be a good fit for *open*solaris.org. I'd love to hear some > perspective on this, and why you made the decisions you did.
I think the project is trying to navigate from a "share nothing publically" position (that might be, say, conceived by a lawyer) to an "open development" position. So you are seeing an attempt to interpret legal restrictions. It might be more helpful if there was more than one repository, so that there was a clearly open repository to which code moved to (out of an anonymous repository) as it becomes ready. For that public repository, there should very clearly be a public list. I can understand a project team wanting to have a "no anonymous" repository for the early stages of development, when legal restrictions (such as patent processes, for instance) are in force, or when some component is only available in pre-production form. For these latter cases, it would be good to discuss how a non-Sun, not-Intel community member could participate (via NDA, waiver, other methods), if known. It would also be helpful to identify what technology/device/platform the open development portion is trying to cover (with links into the vast Intel website, maybe). - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
