[ogb-discuss] OGB/2007/002 Community and Project Reorganisation

[Casper.Dik at sun.com]

>No, we don't.  Perhaps Sun does, but that's not our concern as a
>community.  Hosting is a helpful artifact; it is not core to the
>concept of an OpenSolaris community creating and working on projects.
>If Sun wants to impose this condition on projects hosted using its
>resources, that's fine.  It doesn't belong in a community policy.

I think we still do; think about Firefox and the dozen renamings
they went through?

>I'd like the OGB to adopt a long-term goal of moving all hosting off
>Sun's servers and onto a donor's such as ISC (or perhaps our own, but
>that requires substantial additional work).  Obviously, we can't do
>that until we have our infrastructure settled; it'll probably be a
>year or two.  It's worth doing, though: moving away from Sun's
>self-serving conservativism is necessary to the health and
>independence of this community.

Even then we'll need to avoid trademark infringement so I'm not sure
what this buys this, even though the long term goal is commendable.


That said, I'm not in favour of decorative project names at all
unless they are used for products directly (such as Firefox).

The name of a project is something which will be forgotten when the
project is done; should be forgotten even.  Making such names
descriptive will serve generations to come; making them
randomly selected names makes little sense for the long term.

(And judging about projects shipped by Sun I think we shipped three
different "galaxy" series of boxes years apart)

Casper