[advocacy-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Indiana as the OpenSolaris xxxx distro (was Re: [smf-discuss] Review for 6608098)

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On 10/20/07, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote:
> Brandorr wrote:
> > I'm not sure that this is what is happening.
>
> Ian and Sara said or strongly implied that this discussion/decision was
> being made by the Sun OpenSolaris marketing and Branding people who were
> among the core contributers of the Advocacy (nee Marketing CG), and that
> this was a presentation from that group.  I'm taking them at their word.
>

With due respect to the community members who have a role to play as
Sun employees as well as are community contributors and delicately
balance the roles without getting it mixed up, considering
opensolaris.org as an extension of the office desks and making
non-transparent decisions is very un-community like.
This is not yet a community decision (as mentioned on ogb mailing
list) when this is the first time it is being discussed on any
community forum.

Let the legitimacy be established *after* going through appropriate
discussions on the opensolaris forums. It is not good to leverages the
positions of any of the individuals before this happens.

The topic on "The OpenSolaris distro" is likely to cause unnecessary bad blood.

OpenSolaris community is still young to withstand such political controversies.

What are the benefits seen in a move?

~Shiv