[cab-discuss] Re: CAB conf call - communication

[Al Hopper]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Alan Burlison wrote:

> > From my perspective, there have been times when Sun  marketing
> > as moved in a certain direction without properly consulting
> > the CAB/OGB.  To the extent that they are talking about gray areas
> > or newly released projects, that's fine.  But, when they start
> > talking about strategic directions for OpenSolaris (not Solaris),
> > and justify it by tossing chum onto a public forum and then
> > saying the subscription list *is* the community, it pretty much
> > says to the world that the Core Contributor election process
> > is a sham.
>
> Were any of the OGB members (besides Simon) aware of this meeing?
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/opensolaris_to_3_or_not

It comes as a complete surprise to me.  And its gratifying to see that
Suns OpenSolaris marketing people are privy to such meetings, while the
OGB community representatives get to find out about it well after the
fact.

I'm interested in seeing John Plochers' assessment of this behavior - in
terms of how he rates it as good or bad form.

Let's add this as an agenda to next weeks CAB/OGB conf call.

PS: Who on earth is Barton George?  I can't even find a single mention of
him (or her) on OpenSolaris.Org.  I just checked several hundred megabytes
of archived OpenSolaris postings at Logical (thanks to ZFS) and ... no ..
no mention of the name.  <sarcasm> Perhaps his/her _first_ contribution to
OpenSolaris will be related to changing the licensing terms of the
project. </sarcasm>

[... reformatted slightly ...]

> I realise that Sun retains the copyright of OpenSolaris (and therefore
> the right to determine licensing terms), but I would have assumed that
> the OGB should have been involved with any discussions with the FSF - or
> is that outside their remit?

That would be my *assumption* also!
Alan - thanks for this very informative post.

Regards,

Al Hopper  Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX.  al at logical-approach.com
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