Bart Smaalders wrote: > There are lots of proposals for someone else to do work, but few > volunteers stepping up to the plate. I'm suggesting that those who > argue in favor of extensive changes to the existing Solaris commands > can demonstrate their commitment and interest by helping out. It's not > like we have a large team here at Sun tasked w/ this (or many other) > projects.
I agree. But, the project leaders need to let potential contributors know what the strategy is first. Is the goal to make the default userland a 100% superset of GNU tar and Solaris tar or is something less than 100% compatibility with one of them OK? Is GNU compatibility more important than SUSv3 compliance or is SUSv3 compliance a higher priority? What are the goals for making OpenSolaris compatible with previous Solaris versions? Should we let users plod along with sudo/top/tar or should the OS guide them towards pfexec/prstat/star? I think there are some external people like me that are very interested in being OpenSolaris contributors, but who don't understand the strategy and design goals for the project. I don't even know who to ask what the strategy/design goals are. It is obvious that not everybody @sun.com agrees on this userland issue but who has the final say? Regards, Brian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
