[advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Eric Boutilier]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
 > Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM> wrote:
 >
 >> Joerg -- Regretably, and with the infallible wisdom of hindsight, I 
think it's clear that it was a mistake to not conduct the SchilliX 
project in the place where this Community always wanted you to conduct 
it. Here, /in and among/ the OpenSolaris Community Groups, Contributors, 
and Board.
 >>
 >> And given what you now desire, it appears to have been a fatal mistake.
 >
 > SchilliX was registered as Open Community Project at 
developers.berlios.de in
 > March 2005. At that time www.opensolaris.org did not allow to 
register projects.
 >

But you chose to continue to keep it segregated from here
after we started registering projects too.

Having said that, in your defense, it was hard for anyone to see
then that a project's venue would become so pivotal.

Eric