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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 
> As someone who's come to OpenSolaris from outside the community, I
> think the decision is right on. And Ian's comment that he doesn't get
> it. It seems to me that community is important, but OpenSolaris has a
> larger identity issue vis-a-vis the non-community.


Our identity in the "non-community" will not last unless the community 
itself thrives. We started this project four years ago to build a 
developer community. That was the primary goal from which multiple 
objectives would grow. In fact, the notion of building a developer 
community was part of virtually every meeting I attended even a year 
before we launched. Also, we always knew we would eventually grow to 
have multiple layers to the community, not simply kernel developers.


> If the goal of the distro is draw folks like my company into the fold,
> there has to be distro unequivocally associated with the OpenSolaris
> name. Because frankly, if you're trying to grab folks from another OS


How about organic growth? Why must we go out and grab developers from 
other communities. Early on we never discussed grabbing developers from 
other communities. Virtually all of our planning discussions were 
focused on organic growth and the business of opening our own stuff.


> you've got a short window of opportunity to get them to try it, and
> confusing the heck out of them because they can't figure out which
> distro is the archetypical OpenSolaris distro is prolly not something
> in Sun's or the community's best interest. If the community can't get
> out if its own way on this one, I'm not sure its wrong of Sun to make
> a unilateral decision. 


How has the community not gotten "out of its own way" on this?


Jim
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