2007/6/1, John Mark Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Alan Burlison wrote: > > ---------- > Solaris Express, Community Edition is Sun's binary release for > OpenSolaris developers (code named "Nevada"). It is built from the > latest OpenSolaris source and additional technology that has not been > published in the OpenSolaris source base. This release is unsupported. > Developers can build the OpenSolaris source by using this release as > the base system. It is updated every other Friday. > ---------- Because it's been marketed as "OpenSolaris", so people expect to download an installer for OpenSolaris. If you think the Register guy is the only one to have complaints, you're wrong. The first time I went to opensolaris.org, I wondered "where the F*** is OpenSolaris?" I know I'm not the only one.
It would be interesting to tracks visitors activity, don't we have something like google analytics? That helped me to figure out what should be fixed in other project sites in term of usability ( pygtk.org). However, I had this problem. And everyone that comes to the site with basic knowledge of what opensolaris is (open source solaris), falls into that problem. And most of them get annoyed about the sun.com registration to download Solaris Express. So, Solaris Express is not helping our community to make newcomers feel welcome. Newcomers are the main source of user base, and user base is the main source of new contributors and developers, and without more developers, there is no way to success.
Perhaps the answer to all of this is just to make an OpenSolaris distro happen - and if it works great, if not move on and learn from it. Do folks have the patience for that type of experimenting?
Good point. I don't understand why there are so many people against something new that can be potentially good for the community, if they think is not needed, they shouldn't contribute, and that's all. I would like to see more constructive approaches to this issue. We have anything to loose, and lot to gain. -JM
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