+1. I'm 100% in the camp with those who hold the views
expressed in this message (and, of course, those expressed in
James' message subsequent to this one).
Eric
On Thu, 31 May 2007, James Carlson wrote:
John Plocher writes:
Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
If you want to create an OpenSolaris reference distribution, or any
distribution that advertises itself as having that status,
Why does Indiana have to meet these requirements when Nexenta, Belinix,
MartUX, Schillix, SX, and all the other OS.o distros don't?
Why are you throwing up logistical barriers to this effort instead
of facilitating them?
Or is it that we simply /like/ eating our young?
Wow, that's *really* over the top.
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.
What I understand Keith to be saying (and what I agree with here) is
that if you're going to do that in the name of OpenSolaris itself --
not just "PlocherX" but "OpenSolaris Reference Release" -- then that's
logically something that ought to be a deliberate decision of the
community, and not something that "just happens" or (worse) "happens
because some executive at Sun says so."
I'm not sure it's necessarily an unmitigated good thing to have a
single privileged reference release (what happens to distributions
that decide to innovate in a different direction?), but, as a
community member, I'd like to see something more concrete about what
the reference will contain before deciding whether to endorse it.
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