[indiana-discuss] Project Indiana is an initiative to create an OpenSolaris binary distro ...

[Jason J. W. Williams]

Hey Martin,

Your points on the need for a precise action plan seem on point to me.
 To my watching of the discussions here, it seems the summit will
decide quite a bit of that. In a sense, it seems good to me to mingle
both the fluffier and technical discussions together on this list as
one does depend on the other. Too often marketing and technical folks
seem to have a tendency not to interact when they're working on the
same darn product...to the detriment of the product.

In any event, I think your points are well taken regarding maintaining
the strength of the technical discussions. Will there be a SPARC
version of Indiana in its first release?

Best Regards,
Jason

On 10/1/07, Martin Bochnig <mb1x at gmx.com> wrote:
> Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> > My two cents probably isn't worth much. That being said,
> > branding/marketing seems like a pretty important discussion to me
> > given the target of expanding OpenSolaris mindshare. The technical
> > bones need to be (and by-and-large are) strong. But it needs to look
> > good and get talked about outside the community too.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Jason
> >
>
>
> Hey Jason, agreed, that is out of the question.
> But this is not advocacy-discuss.
> *Some* more discussion about how to implement the technical details, who
> will work on what etc. would be nice.
> Maybe this is what the summit is intended for, to set-up such a
> skeleton. Every project needs a precise action plan and a schedule (even
> if those are unlikely to ever be reached in time). One can start simple
> and incomplete at the beginning, but one has to start.
> I think the technical aspects and the marketing related topics
> absolutely do depend on one another. I just like to discuss (and build)
> the content first, before going to find a nice gift-wrapping.
>
> A desire for a SPARC-version of Indiana doesn't exist, does it?
> If so, why isn't anybody discussing, not to mention working, on it?
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>