I'm going to throw this out there to see what sticks: 1) Create a Foundation to take over OpenSolaris. Obviously has to be done by the Board with Sun Microsystem's blessing.
2) Collect monies from donations, for stuff (promotional, more Starter Kits, domain names, servers, etc). 3) Encourage the creation of a non-Sun marketing team. 4) Really help/encourage/buy (beer|groceries) for the Emancipation Project/Google Summer of code folks. 5) Build a non-Sun distro. Requires 4 to be completed. 6) Set up a few demo servers with ssh root account in Zones to allow people to play with the latest OpenSolaris community distro without actually installing it. (requires 5) 7) Make the source code, the daily build process, the bug tracker, and the wiki available to the public. 8) Allow unrestricted code commit by community members. Nightly builds should check for broken stuff. Have nn-sun code check-in facilitators. 9) Allow people to self-select their roles. Some will code, some will find/report/follow up on bugs, some will write documentation in the wiki, etc. Don't assign. Accept all comers. The high-school student who pushes OpenSolaris on his MySpace page (however garish) may just be the next kernel uber hacker. 10) Don't fret over details. Welcome ideas from far flung places to be put in the nightly builds for people to try (yes there will be massive breakage, but that's what a nightly build is for) 11) Support Ian Murdock's proposals: He's been hired by Sun Executive management for a reason. I don't think it's to enforce the status quo. 12) Really really get the package management thing worked out to work as good as or better than apt. You're smart, figure it out. 13) there is no 13 Thoughts? Personally, I like Debian (stable) best. Solaris, I think, would be my next pick. The rest of the linux distros I care not for (tried a few, fell in love with Debian, never looked back). I've never messed with *BSD. On the desktop: WinXP/Ubuntu. I don't, and again it's a personal thing, like macs necessarily. I can use them fine, they're just not my cup of tea. I also use windows servers (and complain about that every chance I get). I wouldn't mind at all if the battle of the 2010s (it's only 2.5 years away) is OpenSolaris vs Debian. If OpenSolaris plays its cards right, I easily see it a strong contender for most deployed OS in 2013. Be of good cheer. I saw the formative pains of gnupedia->wikipedia in 2001. It wasn't pretty then. Fast forward 6 years and everybody uses it. I can definitely see that happening with OpenSolaris, and I really think that's what Sun management hired Ian to get going. Because, then, dang, SUNW might pull a AAPL and close at 109.44 (today) from Apple's 6.90/share on Jan 24 2003, with all the hardware they'll be able to sell to run Solaris. Pardon me if I'm all fuzzy. Reading 900 posts on opensolaris-discuss in 2 days can do that to a brain. Chris Mahan 818.943.1850 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.christophermahan.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
