On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, John Plocher wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: >> This wouldn't happen -- IMO -- if an opensolaris.com site existed >> without an opensolaris.org site standing in contrast to it. > > > If it was done poorly, yes, this could be a problem. > > > It doesn't have to be done poorly, though. Look at the > MySQL .com and .org sites, one for those who want to use > it in a commercial setting and the other for the development > and enthusiast community. >
I don't know much about that, but I might argue that the MySQL setup might benefit from bringing them together under one. But more importantly you're making an apples to oranges comparison. (We're not talking about sun.com or solaris.com here). > > The current OS.o site is complicated by the fact that we > have mixed up the developer and user roles. > Agree. > Alan mentioned > that there are 100,000 registered users on the site. I'd > put money on the fact that most of them are not at all > interested in becoming OS.o developers per se, but rather > are users, sysadmins and curious people whosimply want to > learn more about what we arre doing. > Agree. > > Rather than inventing a solution and then trying to fit > everything into it, > Not sure I follow. > I'd rather start with a high level > understanding of the various target roles that we (Sun > *and* the community) are trying to address, group them > together based on similarity, and then figure out how > best to address their needs. > Agree. > > Here is what I came up with: > > Developers: > > OpenSolaris Core development - the people, processes and > governance related to the development and evolution of > the core OpenSolaris consolidations themselves. I'd > put ON, X, Admin, Install and some of SFW here; I don't > know a lot about cluster and storage, but I suspect they > fit in here as well. (I think of these as Consolidations) > > OpenSolaris application and add-on content development - > the people, processes and governance related to the > development and evolution of optional/add-on/3rd party > OpenSolaris applications (some of SFW, Blastwave, > SunFreeware, ...) > > OpenSolaris Distro development - the people, processes > and governance related to the development and evolution of > the various OpenSolaris distributions > > Somewhere in the continuum between developers and consumers > > OpenSolaris Special Interest Groups - discussion forums > and meeting places for people who share a common themed > interest in the development activities happening in the > OpenSolaris community. SIGs have some role to play in > the creation of new development projects, roadmaps and > other best practice guidelines and policies > > OpenSolaris User Groups - Geographically organized groups > of OpenSolaris users that value exchanging information, > issues and solutions amongst themselves. User groups > have some role to play in outreach, community growth, > evangelism etc. > > Consumers: > > OpenSolaris Users and Customers - People and organizations > that wish to learn about, try, and use OpenSolaris in some > way. > > OpenSolaris Marketplace - selling and buying products and > services related to OpenSolaris > > ... > ... I can also see how a .org site aimed at the developers > and a .com site aimed at users (with the SIGs and UGs fitting > in to one, the other, or both as their needs dictate) could > also work. > Fair enough. As for me, I still believe that a plan that aims to gradually (over a year or two?) phase things so that eventually everything falls under one or the other (opensolaris.com makes the most sense I think) would be way better than having both an opensolaris.org and an opensolaris.com. Eric _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
