Michael Monaghan wrote:
> I'm not very active in OS space, but the co-existence of genunix &
> OS.o has always confused me.
>
> - though there may be entirely legitimate reasons for having separate sites.
www.opensolaris.org was created by Sun for the OpenSolaris community and is
managed by a team of Sun employees.
www.genunix.org was created by several very devoted community members for
the OpenSolaris community and is managed by them.
When people asked for a wiki for the OpenSolaris community to use,
opensolaris.org had to deal with getting resources assigned, putting it
in the management priority lists against all other tasks to be done,
determining which one to use, etc. As you've seen in this discussion,
a general purpose wiki still isn't prioritized at a level to get resources
funded/assigned.
The genunix maintainers on the other hand, downloaded & installed Mediawiki
and said "There you go! Have fun!" Having no paid employees, and no higher
levels of management to report to, frees them from having to determine what
is the best use of the time they're paying for.
Even if opensolaris.org adds a wiki, it won't be a replacement for genunix,
or a shutting down of genunix, as there are plenty of other things genunix
provides that aren't on opensolaris.org or on the priority list to be added
to opensolaris.org (mirroring all the distros, providing a useful hg web
interface instead of the one on opensolaris.org, etc.). They're not the
only site doing so either - for instance, see the projects tracking bugs in
bugzilla on bugs.grommit.com because they needed something a year or two
before the opensolaris.org effort to pick and migrate to a new bug tracking
system was done.
Any successful community effort will have multiple websites involved, since
that's how communities grow - trying to exert control to force everyone to
one and only one website, especially a website they can't get new software
features added to without a long wait and hoping it's justified to management,
is just a way of crushing the community and driving them away.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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