[arc-discuss] The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

[Martin Bochnig]

John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
>   
>> I understand your feelings, but, in your case, they seem to be without
>> justification.  According to poll.os.o, you are a core contributer only
>> in the OGB community[1], and then only because you produced the first
>> independent distro based on the code found on OpenSolaris.org.  It is
>> noteworthy that, in light of your demonstrated talent and track record
>> for independently producing groundbreaking and useful software, you have
>> chosen to not become a core contributer in /any/ of the other OS.o
>> communities, including the software producing ones (ON, X, Desktop, SFW,
>> NWSC, G11N, ...), or to actually contribute anything other than email.
>>
>>     

How meaningful is such a thing?
Some people write a few man pages and are being declared as new "core 
contributors", just very recently.
Others work months long for free (no Sun contract), get things done that 
were previously considered "impossible". (e.g. usable Xorg on SPARC, 
port of UPA Linux/BSD- code to OpenSolaris-SPARC, etc. etc.), yet are 
still treated as plain contributors. I was on the way to consider a 
return. But messages like yours make me scratch my head. It is just such 
a thankless thing here. Not only totally uneconomic, but also thankless. 
So why should I put my (more of) entire life's time into such a project?