[advocacy-discuss] OSUG Discussion: OGB Reorg and New Webapp Issues

[Rafael Vanoni]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>> 2008/7/1 Alan DuBoff <alan.duboff at sun.com>:
>>   
>>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Jim Grisanzio wrote
>>>> Do you mean the gate? If so, I see that things are moving along more
>>>> rapidly now for the ON migration to Mercurial and then across the firewall:
>>>>
>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/scm-migration-dev/2008-June/002440.html
>>>>       
>>> Jim,
>>>
>>> Good to see some progress on this. August will start the transition.
>>>
>>> I know it's a difficult problem, I'm not faulting anyone, it's just taking
>>> a long time.
> 
> Yep. It took way longer than anyone realized, no question, but as Shawn 
> suggests below progress has been made elsewhere so we should point that 
> out. We are engaging the community at multiple levels, but it's just not 
> always consistent or spread evenly across the entire project. And I see 
> Tim making all kinds of changes around here, so keep the faith Alan. 
> We're getting there.
> 
>>> It is hard to keep folks interested in our community, when we
>>> show that type of progress.
>>>     
>> It should be noted more than a few projects do have their source gates
>> outside the firewall and have external contributors. It's mainly been
>> ON, etc. that have been stuck behind the "wall".
>>   
> 
> Very good point. I know off hand that JDS and g11n are out there and 
> taking contributions. I don't have a comprehensive list of everyone though.

Tesla is out there too - all the power management related gates are 
under Mercurial.

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/tesla/

Rafael