I was in the process of writing my own proposal for a reference build (I got sidetracked because of all the distracting Indiana discussion), I am including my incomplete draft proposal for consideration and comment:
Proposal OpenSolaris Reference Distribution v0.1 1. Introduction and motivation 1.1 Summary This project proposes to develop and release weekly distributions that would be used by OpenSolaris as their reference platform to develop on. This is similar to the role Solaris Express Community Edition plays now, But would be sustained and maintained by the OpenSolaris community, rather than Sun. The problem with SXCS is that it is not OpenSolaris, but rather a commercial operating system built by Sun. One of the serious issues with this approach, is that developing OpenSolaris code on a Solaris distribution does not provide any technical guarantees that the resulting code in unencumbered. The motivation behind this proposal is to change the development environment as it exists today, to put all distributions on equal footing. If the development platform is unencumbered there is a fair amount of certainty that the resulting code will be as well. 1.2 History and context Until recently Solaris and OpenSolaris were controlled by the same organization, Sun Microsystems. Recently OpenSolaris became an independent organization, with it's own governing structures and Constitution. After this independence OpenSolaris did not start producing their own reference distribution, instead continuing to rely on Sun's Solaris Express Community Edition weekly releases. 2. Discussion 2.1 Functionality There are certain certain bits in Solaris that have not been released to the community. This new Reference Distribution would be built without those components. Applicable suitable open source replacements would be found. If there isn't a suitable replacement, it would be incumbent upon the OpenSolaris community to develop suitable replacements. 2.2 Components 2.3 Documentation 2.4 Future projects 3. Interfaces 3.1 Imported interfaces 3.2 Exported interfaces Bundled files 4. References In addition I have started a Wiki page where we can capture some of the descions made by the project team. http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php?title=OpenSolaris_Reference_Build cheers, brian On 5/31/07, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Simon Phipps writes: > On May 31, 2007, at 13:36, James Carlson wrote: > > > I don't think anyone is saying that you can't create a distribution > > yourself without bothering with any project, community, or governing > > board. You can. Knock yourself out. > > But that's not what's happening. If a Sun-sponsored team went off > outside the scope of the community and created a distribution like > the one being proposed as "Indiana", all hell would break loose here. The part that you snipped away was where John Plocher was asserting that this case would somehow prevent future distributions (such as the ones we now have) from even starting. I don't believe that's the case. > We are now at the stage where (as John Plocher said) for some reason > some high-profile individuals are "throwing up logistical barriers to > this effort instead of facilitating them", something that has not > seemed to happen to a project proposal on OpenSolaris before. I just don't see it that way. Is having a community endorse this project a "barrier?" And one that necessarily causes undue hardship? If so, then perhaps it's time to amend the constitution we just ratified. Merely ignoring it doesn't seem like a reasonable option to me. > Thus, as a community member, I'd like to see a team form and get > started. I would really like to see the OGB we elected facilitate > rather than obstruct, please. So far, I haven't seen anyone trying to obstruct. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
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