Sean Sprague wrote: > Jim, with the greatest of respect that I have for you and all the work > that you have put into OpenSolaris, >> Agreed. I would also like to know. I think that splurging the words >> "Developer Preview" over "OpenSolaris" is a mistake. is rightly >> explained as a milestone in the use of OpenSolaris, but by no means >> the be-all-and-end-all of OpenSolaris; and the crude roadmap is >> nothing but... crude and non-representational for where OpenSolaris >> (as opposed to Indiana) is going. >>> Basically IMO, the front page currently sucks. >> >> It's a great page. The best by far for OpenSolaris, no question about >> it. Your comment is offensive, Sean. > > All right. I did not want to open a can of worms in such a fashion; and > I certainly did not wish in any way to impune the efforts and successes > by yourself and Derek and others. If I did so; then I humbly offer my > sincerest apologies to you both (and anyone similarly affected). Saying > that the page "sucks" was indeed out of order; and reprehensible to > state as such on my behalf. I (as the Community does) value you > both(/all) very highly in terms of ability/integrity and without > question commitment. > > However, Bill summed it up really by saying (paraphrased WRT OpenSolaris > Developer Preview) "Please give it a shot but please don't assume it > represents the future of openSolaris". Indiana represents one single > potential future of OpenSolaris - _the_ only future of OpenSolaris is > surely how the codebase evolves, how the Opensolaris Community > grows/evolves, and how distros evolve from the seed that has been planted. > > If I have caused offence, to reiterate, I apologize unreservedly.
Thanks for the clarification, I realize this is a sensitive issue. As I mentioned before, naming aside, this is a important milestone and we need to provide people with easy access to information. I suspect when the naming issue gets worked out there will be significantly less objection to the content on the home page. In addition, I think (even more so, after this) that we'll wind up moving the distro pages to a separate mini-site at os.org and revert os.org/os back to a 'developer' home page as opposed to a click-and-get page. Derek > > Regards. Sean. > _______________________________________________ > website-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
