John Plocher wrote:
Historically, the PAC chose what kinds of consolidations[*] to charter.
Now the OpenSolaris Community Core members have that responsibility.
This is new ground for all of us (and sometimes it really scares me :-),
so discussions like this are important to make sure we don't screw things
up.
I disagree.
The Solaris PAC (a body responsible only to Sun) still chooses which
consolidations to charter for the Solaris product that Sun produces and
chooses when Sun releases its Solaris products.
It chooses to use opensolaris.org to manage and host the development of
the content for some of those consolidations as OpenSolaris projects and
community delivered content.
Just like Nexenta chooses to use some of the projects and community
delivered content but doesn't use all the same content as Solaris. For
example as I understand it Nexenta does not use the JDS or X
consolidations from opensolaris but uses their own alternatives. Then
take Belenix which IIRC doesn't even use GNOME at all but uses a
"consolidation" for KDE which isn't even hosted on opensolaris.org.
In this respect we are very much more like the collection of
distributions that build around the Linux kernel than we are the
{Open,Net,Free}BSD projects.
So getting back to the original question I like the idea of "2 of 8"
being restricted rather than layout out a schedule like the traditional
Solaris ones.
The other thing to consider is should all "consolidation" (it isn't
actually clear on opensolaris.org what is a project and what is a
"consolidation") be working to the same restrictions at the same time or
is this just an issue for the ON project.
--
Darren J Moffat
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