[advocacy-discuss] [website-discuss] Thoughts on an opensolaris.com

[Glynn Foster]

Alan Burlison wrote:
> As I said, I am neutral on the need for a .com/.org split.  However I 
> felt that the blog post painted the current situation in an unfairly 
> negative light, and I felt that point should be addressed.

Apologies for that - it certainly wasn't meant to be negative in anyway, and I 
most certainly have painted the current situation with the wrong brush.

> There's an old joke about someone asking for directions and being told 
> "If you wanted to get to there, I wouldn't start from here", and I very 
> much feel that is the situation we are in with opensolaris.  When we 
> started out we were told to head in a specific direction, and I feel we 
> have successfully done what we have been asked to do.  What I think is 
> unfair is the suggestion that we have somehow not delivered "the thing 
> that we need", when what has actually happened is the goalposts have 
> moved.  To characterise what we have at present as a failure of some 
> sort is incorrect - we have what was asked for.  The fact that we now 
> need something different is not a failing of what we have done so far, 
> it is a sign of growth.

Agree.


Glynn