[ogb-discuss] Project creation guidelines

[Eric Boutilier]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
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> Eric Boutilier wrote:
>>> ...
>>> 2) Project creation guidelines
>>>
>>>   Keith proposed the board should tackle the project creation process. 
>>> Steve
>>>   like the fact that there was a relatively low barrier to creation...
>> 
>> 
>> It might be worth considering some kind of specific way to accommodate the
>> "Howard Roarks" of the coding world, e.g. lone-wolf programmers. Maybe this
>> could be a tradeoff kind of setup. They get to use opensolaris.org space,
>> tools, etc., but they don't get all the rights that fully endorsed projects
>> get (which they probably wouldn't care much about anyway).
>
> If they don't want to be part of the community, why would they be better off
> at opensolaris.org than code.google.com or sourceforge.net?

There's actually a big difference here between saying "the community" and
"a community". In other words, you put words in my mouth that I didn't say
(not even close).

These would projects that are better off at opensolaris.org (than say
google or sourceforge), simply because opensolaris.org is the optimal place
for certain projects to live.

Eric