Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > The community needs to be able to prevent moves into a direction that is
> > aparently driven by customers but against the will of the majority of the
> > users
> > and the community needs to be able to put back their developments results.
>
> That will only happen if the community makes its own fork. Neither Sun
I am not interested in a fork as long as there is a hope that there is a way
based on collaboration. Collaboration saves time and prevents balkanization.
This is an important reason why there is a need to have an interaction between
the OCB and Oracle. The current behavior of Oracle causes uncertainty in the
community and we need to find out whether Oracle is planning to drive
OpenSolaris against a wall or whether there are plans for the future that
include the community in a way that benefits both sides.
- The best way would be if we could establish a "co-development"
community that constructively collaborates with the primary owner and
sponsor of the OpenSolaris and related codebases. This would finally
implement the original plan for OpenSolaris and this would be the most
profitable solution for Oracle as this seems to be the only way to
increase the user base in the future.
- A less desiable way would not include the community and in this case,
the community needs at least a community owned code repository that
serves something like the Linux Kernel compilation from Alan Cox.
In such a repository, the community decides on what may come in but
even this only works if the lord of the manor understands why the
community made a specific decision and eventually adopts to the
decisions of the community.
- The worst scenario would be that nothing like the above works. In this
case we would need to find out whether we still have a vital community
that is able to create a fork. In this case, I see no future for Oracle
Solaris nor for the Oracle Sun Hardware business as customers will
leave the sinking ship and check for alternatives.
> nor Oracle would put the community "wishes" ahead of customer requirements,
> nor do I know of any successful open source OS driven by majority votes of
> users.
If IPS was a service of the kernel, something like IPS would never have a
chance to make it into the Linux kernel as Linus does not accept a replacement
before the replacement does not at least offer the features of the software
that is going to be replaced.
The ideas are my private ideas and not the official plan of the OGB.
Jörg
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