Paul Kasper wrote: > Jim, > > I don't want to stifle the community. > I can see that. :) I can see you have the best interest of the community at heart. We just disagree on this issue. > But, the only reason I see that genunix > is around is that the central site wasn't > providing one of the core requirements > for a community...the ability for > OpenSolaris users to easily collaborate on > information. >
They added the wiki after they launched the initial site, so collaboration via wiki was not an initial requirement. I think the main reason was to provide a mirror for source downloads and they they started also providing hosting for the distros. All good stuff. > If we can solve that with the new infrastructure, > then I think it would benefit the community to > minimize the sites and logins to remember. > We've already heard from one person on this > thread that having the opensolaris.org site > and the genunix site is confusing. > Sure, as the meta-community grows around the world, various sites will bump into each other and occasionally overlap, and people will have to adjust and such. I'm find with that. Sites will have to differentiate themselves. The core development will take place on os.org since that's where the gates will live and the majority of the engineers are there, but that doesn't mean that other sites can't crop up to do other things. I don't know what the roadmap is for Genunix, so I can't speak for what they have planned for their site. But I view OpenSolaris as a global community of communities, and I'm more than happy for many sites to support those communities. > Providing a single portal also makes more sense > for future enhancements. I would love to see more > mediawiki plugins added to the the genunix site. > But, is it really useful for the OpenSolaris community to try > to maintain and enhance two separate sites? > Is there one Linux site? I participate in the Tokyo Linux User Group, and they are totally independent. I would love for an OpenSolaris Tokyo UG to start /off/ of opensolaris.org. They are welcome to a project on our site, but if they want their own space, that's cool. What about other distros? What if someone really has a cool idea for something, but they want their own space (for whatever reason)? We (Sun) just created opensolaris.com, and sure, some have argued that it's confusing, but let's give it a chance to grow and find it's core. Just some examples. > I would rather focus our collective effort on adding > more code or packages to OpenSolaris. > So, that's a development issue, and I can see that happening on .org. Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/ _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
