On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Paul Gress <pgr...@optonline.net> wrote: >> Great idea. Not what the current OGB, as the OGB, is chartered to do. >> The OGB would really have to quit the current system and reform in >> some other guise, or a new body would have to take this on. > > Maybe this is whats planned if "they cut their heads off". I didn't agree > with that decision, but now I'm starting to think of it as a well planned > decision.
The best of all worlds, IMHO, would be for us (the community) to build and maintain a website of our own that hosted a minimalist distro of our own, with IPS repos of our own, using only the master mercurial (and/or whatever) source repos mirrored from within Oracle. Explicitly NOT a fork, and explicitly NOT an Oracle product, it would provide desperately needed direction and coherence for our community. In addition to, but separate from it, there should be an "Alan Cox" style branch where community contributions to the core OS could be evaluated, packaged, committed and maintained. Continuing my fantasy, there would be a set of related IPS repos that contain community generated packages for each of these two distro "styles" (ala the source jucr and/or Blastwave and/or SunFreeWare). Imbibing fully of the Kool-Aid gets me to a point where one could use the Distro Constructor to craft a personalized distro, say with KDE and ZFS or Crosbow, ZFS and no graphics/desktop support at all. At least that's my vision. Whether it is motivating and inspiring to others is a big unknown. One significant hurdle is that not all of the current OGB members feel they can devote the significant quantities of their limited energy, resources and time that such an undertaking would entail - a situation that applies, I'm sure, to many others in our community... -John _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
