Christopher Mahan wrote:
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.
You are free to set up the foundation yourself. It does not have to have
anything
to do with opensolaris.org. You might just see what is involved before
you start,
though. It is not a bed of roses as you may think. Where is the Fedora
foundation?
2) Collect monies from donations, for stuff (promotional, more
Starter Kits, domain names, servers, etc).
Are you donating?
3) Encourage the creation of a non-Sun marketing team.
Are you going to pay them. What are they supposed to market.
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.
Isn't the ones already out there? You are free to make you own distro.
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)
Who is paying for them?
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.
Have you got something against Sun? Anonymous commit?
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.
I thought you do not like Sun marketing?
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.
How many times are we hearing this. Please write something!
Chris, an interesting post. Most of these issues have been brought up in
the past.
In summary.
* This is OpenSolaris.org. Solaris and OpenSolaris are Sun
trademarks, Sun is the Copyright holder.
* Sun contributes well over 95% of the content, owns this site and
pays the bills
* You can always copy the code, make your own site. Develop a new
distro. Make your own community. As long as you respect the License
.
Doug
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