On Wednesday 02 November 2005 11:50 pm, Joerg Schilling wrote: > James Lick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think what most people are frustrated with is that there is a > > disconnect between announcing the project far and wide, but then saying > > the site needs to be locked down because it's not quite ready for > > everyone. If it's not ready, don't go announcing it everywhere. If it > > is ready enough for wide announcements, don't lock it down. If you want > > to announce it and make it registration only, provide clear registration > > instructions. Two replies here have been made saying "contact Alex > > Ross" to register, but no mention of how to contact him. I appreciate > > the complexity of launching a product like this, but so far it is just > > too frustrating to participate. I would humbly suggest that someone > > from the project post how to get in touch with Alex Ross to register. > > +1
I'm sure that there are several who may feel in the same way as expressed above, but I would like to point out that Debian doesn't make it easy for anyone to join their project, it's always been like that. Debian also has some of the better standards, in the Linux community. While I agree that we should be in a wait-see mode for such a large project to get off the ground, I feel we should also encourage these types of project and help where it fits. > My conclusion: I am afraid that this "way of life" could segments the > efforts for OpenSolaris distributions into incompatible sections where > people do not collaborate. I don't see it that way, but this view could be taken for just about any distribution, even Schillix. I think the cards will fall how they were meant to fall. We will see many projects, some come and go, over the next few years. How the community is able to manage their projects and keep interest in them certainly remains to be seen, but by all means we should be encouraging any efforts where possible. This is similar to the way you see the glass of water, half full? half empty? -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
