[advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [ogb-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

[Bob Netherton]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 13:42 -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> Names are very important.

Absolutely.

> Pick a new one that properly communicates this release's status as an
> experimental prototype produced by a subset of the community without
> prior broad review, and all will be well.
> 
> To me, at least, "Preview" has a strong connotation of "almost done".

Hmmmm, I look at it as work in progress.  The web page clearly
indicates that another preview is coming, so almost done may be a
bit strong.  How about a consolidation of ideas that the project team
is thinking about, in a state suitable for public viewing ?

> The current name is already causing confusion -- on one sun-internal
> list someone  seemed to think it was baked enough that it could go -- in
> its current form -- on ruggedized mil-spec laptops for mission-critical
> applications.

well that's an issue :)  but has nothing to do with the preview release.

> It's a very promising start but parts of it are held together with duct
> tape and bailing wire and it's not ready for prime time.  

And as a preview, I wouldn't expect much more.  I've seen Fedora
previews that were way less polished, and that's after the community
had already gone through several releases.   I will say that I got more
than I expected on first boot, and that was cool.


> > I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. Not in the least bit.
> 
> It's all about the name.  Back away from "OpenSolaris Developer Preview"
> and this nightmare will end.

Most respectfully disagree.  While I respect and admire a lot of the
passion shown in some of these threads, the community has to have a
distribution with easy association.  and then we have to work hard to
get OpenSolaris from noun to adjective.


bob