On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Jensen Lee wrote: >>> So what now again? Where are you all?? >>> Alan offered us THE EXITING solution, I suggested he >>> should do it and >>> we all found a FullyOpenXsun "project", and exactly >>> now when it really >>> matters, nobody is here anymore? >> >> This is EXCELLENT! Something good is finally being achieved out of this >> discussion. >> >> Alan please could you let us know what will be your next steps? > > I wait and see if the community steps forward with something more than talk. > > A first step would be someone gathering a list of people committed to working > on it, and going through the opensolaris project creation process to get > yourself a mailing list and source repository setup. > > I don't have much spare time at the moment, and work to release Xsun sources > would come out of my spare time, not as a management sponsored project, so I > can't promise when sources would be released. ? (The source release process > involves verifying that each source file has no encumberances and then adding > the open source license notice to any files with Sun created code that doesn't > already have it. ? Fortunately, much of the core Xsun code is from the X11R6 > sources, so is already open source.)
yeah, except for all ddx relevant parts. count me in along with everyone interested. p,s. it is all of us's spare time. thank you!! %mab > > -- > ? ? ? ?-Alan Coopersmith- ? ? ? ? ? alan.coopersmith at sun.com > ? ? ? ? Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
