[ogb-discuss] Re: Completeness of opensolaris-announce announcements.

[Derek Cicero]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Btw, how come NWS and the BusyBox project got front page announcement 
> billing, but the Tadpole Platform Support project and the Ports 
> Collection project did not?
It's in the RSS feed, but we had problem with the feed updating for a 
few days and when we fixed it there were 7 entires ahead of it, moving 
it off the home page.
Derek

> 
>    -- Garrett
> 
> G N S wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 4/12/07, *Bill Sommerfeld* < sommerfeld at sun.com 
>> <mailto:sommerfeld at sun.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     so, the recent announcement of the "busybox" project was woefully
>>     incomplete.
>>
>>
>> I based the announcement on the precedence that has been set (project 
>> announcements that have been made by other projects). I request people 
>> to review some of the recent announcements listed below.
>>
>> New Tadpole Platform Support project open for business
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=28311&tstart=0 
>> <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=28311&tstart=0>
>>
>> New Project: OpenSolaris Ports Collection
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=28308&tstart=0 
>> <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=28308&tstart=0>
>>
>> OpenSolaris project: Network Storage
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27133&tstart=0 
>> <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27133&tstart=0>
>>
>> New OpenSolaris Project: Java kstats
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27132&tstart=0 
>> <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27132&tstart=0>
>>
>> New OpenSolaris Project: Mozilla DTrace
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27030&tstart=0 
>> <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27030&tstart=0>
>>
>> > Nowhere in the announcement does it say what busybox actually *IS*.
>>
>> While there are no elaborate details about the existing busybox 
>> project, the opening statement about the project in the announcement is:
>> "This project is about providing busybox( www.busybox.net 
>> <http://www.busybox.net/>) equivalent on OpenSolaris."
>>
>> Which indicates the existing busybox with link reference.
>>  
>> In the absence of any guidelines/templates, I believe it would be fair 
>> to say the level of details provided is as much if not more compared 
>> to most other project announcements that have been made. If those were 
>> acceptable so should it be the case with this one.
>>
>> The project announcement automation and the 1-pager template that are 
>> mentioned should help any *future* disparities.
>>
>> best regards
>> Shiv
>>
>> ps: My mail to the list initially got reject instead of going to the 
>> moderation queue since I was not a member of the list. The list itself 
>> was not listed at opensolaris.org->forums. I had to figure out the url 
>> based on other mailing lists so that I could subscribe and respond.
>>
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Derek Cicero
Program Manager
Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division