Hi Alan (and Steve)
Alan Burlison wrote:
I agree with Steve about this - unless you are going to release some
code as open source, the project doesn't belong on opensolaris.org. A
SDK and API isn't sufficient. Hell, we have released the Solaris APIs
for as long as Solaris has existed, in the form of header files and
manpages but that most assuredly didn't make Solaris open source.
I'm going to try and address both of your concerns here.
First there will be code! The main issue is that we are still dealing
with some internal politics to figure out how to do this. We'd like some
community input on that to decide which parts of the Honeycomb stack are
most useful to people at large (at the moment Honeycomb is quite tied to
the hardware appliance we sell to people).
Second, the reason for releasing the SDK/API _and_ emulator is so that
people can start today working on open source applications that will run
on archival storage (admittedly with Honeycomb as the back end today).
Finally, I'm not trying to pressure anyone into giving a +1. We have a
complicated system in Honeycomb, we believe that we have useful things
to offer the OpenSolaris community in the way we have embedded Solaris
into a distributed storage cluster.
peter
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