Sara Dornsife wrote:
>> It's all about the name. Back away from "OpenSolaris Developer Preview"
>> and this nightmare will end.
>>
>
> And then what? I hope that doesn't sound facetious, I'm really asking
> what you see as next steps.
Seriously: Mend your bridges with the community you diss'ed:
Engage with the Desktop, HPC, Install/Pkging and ARC communities
by asking something like "we would like to make the Indiana Project
into something that could be named "OpenSolaris-foo - how can you
help us/what do we need to do to get to that point?"
You could also try having a public conversation on the topic of
"We've got a developer preview ready, and would like to position
it as an OpenSolaris Developer Preview. How can we do that in a
way that engages (rather than disenfranchises) the larger community?"
Usually, the flow is
Get an idea, discuss it with all of the stakeholders,
come to a mutually agreeable conclusion, then act in concert
on the result.
The Indiana developer preview naming decision seems to instead
have done
Get an idea, discuss it with executives at Sun, announce
the results to the stakeholders as an already-decided fact
and start acting unilaterally on the result.
The first builds a community, the second erodes one.
-John
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