Marc Hamilton wrote:
> but this is really an issue for
> Solaris engineering more so than for the
> OpenSolaris community. If the OpenSolaris
> community creates a production reference
> distro, then it should be relatively easy
> for Solaris engineering to align major
> Solaris releases with OpenSolaris releases
> and avoid the Fedora/RHEL chasm. 

Hi ...

Perhaps I'm reading too much into your comments here, but why are you drawing a 
distinction between the "OpenSolaris community" (creating a reference distro) 
and "Solaris engineering" (aligning product releases)? 

>From a development perspective, Solaris engineering /is/ the OpenSolaris 
>community -- plus the new people who are getting involved since June 14, 2005. 
>So, aren't we really talking about largely the same people here? For two 
>years, we've been opening the Solaris code, infrastructure, and engineering 
>organization and in the process mixing with developers from outside the 
>company with the intention of growing one engineering community with one 
>governance model and one development process. We're certainly not there yet, 
>but isn't that the goal?

Jim
-- 
Jim Grisanzio, Sr. Program Manager, OpenSolaris Engineering
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
 
 
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