On 16 Sep 2010, at 19:38, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: > Calum Benson <calum.ben...@oracle.com> wrote: >> >> Anyone who wanted to was always free to contribute such packages to >> OpenSolaris, via spec-files-extra and later, Source Juicer. Not many people >> ever did, and of those, not everyone subsequently kept them up to date. If >> OpenIndiana can find the people to port and maintain a large package library >> that Sun/Oracle never could, then fair play to them! > > The main problem with OpenSolaris under Sun was that it was close to > impossible to contribute. This was not a problem from missing contributors > but > a problem caused by the was Sun did interact with contributors.
It was difficult to contribute to ON, I agree. But it was very easy to contribute to spec-files-extra, which was hosted on SourceForge precisely so that anybody could contribute any packages they wanted to, without having to worry about signing contributor agreements etc. It shouldn't really have been any harder to contribute to Source Juicer-- unfortunately, that just never really got the resources it needed to bring it up to a production quality build farm for external contributors. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
