[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source

[Joerg Schilling]

"Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:

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

If we did use an upgraded SCCS and base things on collaboration, this 
"technical problem" could have been solved a year ago already. Somebody did 
chose a solution that is extremely expensive in comparison to upgrading SCCS.
Even this fact proves that the base problem is not of technical nature.....


> >  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

This looks strange, did you never read the mail you wrote?

If you have problems to remember, look e.g. at the thread that contains this:
b9c544f0802210824i7df0b057o1513e6b137346575 at mail.gmail.com mail.

Collaboration works if people are willing to collaborate. If a project is
of interest for opensolaris, it is sufficient to add a link to opensolaris.org.
This is how the web is intented to work....


> 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...

OpenSolaris projects existed long before opensolaris.org became accessible by 
anyone and this was still long before opensolaris.org became writable by 
communities. If you were a shepherd, would you claim that it makes most sense 
to have all sheeps of the world on your willow?

Jörg

-- 
 EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
       js at cs.tu-berlin.de                (uni)  
       schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de     (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily