Hello James,
> Hi Cyril,
> I don't work with Jeff and Bill, and I cannot speak for them
> about this.
>
> What I can say, however, is that "open source" does not always
> equate to requiring "open development".
Indeed. However willingness to openly develop opensource project or
lack of that of is also considered by community.
Open source is much more than throwing the code over the wall.
Heck, in the early pilot days I was told by a number of Sun engineers,
that the reason things are taking time is exactly that - we do not
want to just throw the code over the wall - we want to build a
community.
> I do not think that Jeff, Bill and team are trying to "prove"
> anything by "keeping their mouth[s] shut". I think you should
> remember that they have a heckuvalot on their plates right now,
> and deduplication is not an _easy_ problem to solve. It must
> be done Correctly, and I do not believe there is any wiggle
> room on that.
>
> Besides that, if you're so worried about it, why haven't you
> asked them directly?
Yeah, I should.
So Jeff, Bill and team (I know you are on this list), is there any
reason ZFS deduplication project isn't run as OpenSolaris project ?
With code repository, mailing list and all the other things publicly
available. That way the development process becomes transparent and
community members may contribute as well (if they choose/want to).
--
Regards,
Cyril
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