[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source

[Shawn Walker]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>  This tries to discuss a blog that tries to make the missing accessibility of
>  the source control system guilty for problems. This is not the real problem.
>  The real problem is that effort from the existing OpenSolaris community
>  is ignored and that it is close to impossible to contribute. But this is not
>  a technical problem, it is a problem caused by burocracy rules that prevent
>  collaboration. This does not only slow down the cooperation with external
>  development but it even slows down things inside Sun.

Part of it is technical problems -- at least when it comes to ON.
Mercurial and assorted tools only reached maturity for use recently.

>  Claiming that collaboration with OpenSolaris can only happen on the
>  OpenSolaris.org portal is a mistake. This is an attempt to patronize the
>  community.

I've never seen that claimed, but the collaboration should flow
through and be centered around the community. To coordinate something,
you must do so inevitably from a central location.

The OpenSolaris websites makes the most sense as that location...

-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben