John writes: > I don't know why we all need to speculate on what is going to happen on SXDE, > SXCE, and opensolaris. Is it too much to ask for somebody in charge to build > a development roadmap that is both accurate, detailed (with real dates), and > maintained? Even if SXCE and openSolaris developers are two different > groups, can't the be some visible synergy between them? I'm on a discussion > board at opensolaris.org that is labeled "OpenSolaris Forums", yet when I > bring up an issue the response is, "oh, we aren't that openSolaris, you want > to talk to the other Opensolaris people". What the hell? Is the community > fractured? If it is, it should unite quickly because it's very confusing to > the rest of us (outsiders) and not at all reassuring.
I think your confusion might be rooted on the distinction between "OpenSolaris the distribution" and "OpenSolaris the community." Sun produces a specific (and commercial) distribution of the OpenSolaris code called "OpenSolaris." This distribution (like all distributions) is an independent group choosing what things to bundle up and deliver as a system. The home for that is www.opensolaris.com (.com, not .org), and the people involved are mostly the Indiana project team, which is why I pointed you to them for questions about roadmaps and upgrade plans. Those sorts of things are distribution issues, not source issues. Sun used to produce a distribution called "Solaris Express Developer Edition" (SXDE), but that work is finished now that there's an OpenSolaris distribution. At some point in the more distant future, "Solaris Express Community Edition" (SXCE) will also go away. There's also "OpenSolaris the community," which represents all of the projects going on within the community and the source code we're all sharing, and that's typically discussed on this list. Some of those projects are intently focused on Indiana (that is, "the OpenSolaris distribution"), but others are not. There are more distributions than just Sun's. There's naturally some confusion here, and other than trying to point folks in the right direction, I don't know what to do about it. Sun owns the "OpenSolaris" trademark and is free to do what it wishes with that mark (such as producing a new distribution under the same name as the existing community), even if it leaves some to wonder what "opensolaris-discuss" actually means. In this case, I don't think that opensolaris-discuss is the right place to go if you want to talk about planning issues related to one vendor's distribution. The right folks might be listening here, but they might not. It's a wide-ranging and noisy list. (In general, I'd say that the more targeted a list you can find, the better off you'll be.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 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]
