On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:59 PM, John Plocher <john.ploc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
There. That's good enough for me. We can quibble later about whether IPS is really the right packaging/distribution system. That's perfect as a declaration of independence. Where do I sign? > > 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... > > Morale couldn't probably be any lower. Maybe we'll get surprised by enough folks stepping up in the community. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
