On Mar 16, 2008, at 13:39, Alan Burlison wrote: > The need for improvements to the current opensolaris.org website is > already accepted. The need for segmenting the community is open to > discussion, and I think that discussion needs to take place first > before > deciding the consequences of any such split on the web infrastructure.
OK, so (at the risk of me commenting polarising the usual suspects!) let's go to that place. Given the enormity of the OpenSolaris project, I think it would be very smart indeed to segment the online community presence into a "co-creation" grouping whose common purpose is to develop the code from which distro builders create Solaris, OpenSolaris and other distros, and an "adopter" grouping whose purpose is to deploy and use the resulting distros and software appliances. I'd also want the distro builders to be welcome to do their work as part of the "co-creator" grouping is they wish, although to date most have worked elsewhere. I'd agree with you that all the piece-parts are available; I would also agree with Glynn that they are not currently assembled so that those two very distinct groups are able to go about their lives to best effect. So I like the general idea Glynn is proposing because it makes that happen, and I think his approach (of starting with the distinction between co-creators and adopters and working outwards) is the right one. S. _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
