James Carlson wrote:
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
This is the sort of project that needs to stay in sync with whatever
the ON community is doing so they can be aware of big gate or process
changes, and so that they can work together.
I don't like the idea of making this project formally subservient to the
ON Core Contributors (who are ultimately also its C-Team). The point of
this consolidation is to deal with stuff that has been *excluded* from ON.
Does this mean that the new consolidation has some sort of a "first
refusal" agreement with ON? In other words, can you (or "should you")
deliver via the new consolidation without bothering to see whether ON
would reject you, or do you have to apply to ON first?
I'd not anticipate any such requirement. Application to ON would be
required only if you wanted to be part of any official Sun release. If
you don't care, you can contribute here.
I think part of the goodness of the consolidations that feed into the
OpenSolaris distribution is that the software is made easily available.
It's all packaged up and shipped properly. Thus, having projects that
might consider this new consolidation deliver though an established
consolidation instead, all else being equal, would be a good thing for
all users and should be encouraged.
You are assuming that OpenSolaris is the One True Distribution. I'm
contending that this is not necessarily the case. This consolidation is
for stuff that won't be delivered via that mechanism.
How exactly do the products of this consolidation's work get
distributed? And how does this consolidation encourage folks to do
things with longer-term benefits?
The intent here is to allow other distros (e.g. Milax, Nexenta,
whatever) have access to hardware support that they can't get from ON.
Binary distribution is a matter for the distribution folks... like ON,
this is just a source repo. (Sure we'll have nightly builds, so you can
download bits, and we might deliver some stuff into /contrib via IPS or
some other repo, but to really be useful I expect much of this stuff
will have to be built into an install media.)
- Garrett
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