[ogb-discuss] Project creation guidelines (was: OGB Meeting Minutes :: 11/04/07)

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
>
>> Simply being
>> hosted at a particular address doesn't make someone a part of the
>> Community, and I see no reason to muddy the waters by implying that it
>> does.  Why is it any more useful for a closed-development, unendorsed
>> project to be hosted on opensolaris.org than for it to be hosted
>> somewhere else?
>
> I think mainly because there might be future coding efforts for which
> opensolaris.org meets two key criteria: a.) It's the programmer's (or
> programmers') first most optimal choice, and b.) it's the most optimal fit 
> for the kind of thing they want to work on.

I should also say I don't buy into this "closed-development"
characterization. In my experience, non-conformism doesn't
necessarily lead to closed development (just as official
endorsment doesn't necessarily lead to open development).

Eric