[ogb-discuss] Re: DTrace & MDB OpenSolaris communities

[Eric Boutilier]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Bryan Cantrill wrote:
>
>>         I'm writing you since you are the community leaders for the
>> DTrace & MDB communities.  For the past couple of weeks we've been
>> hashing out a reorganisation and reclassification of communities and
>> projects[1] with the aim of having some more consistency.  I'm writing
>> you as our proposal involves your community or project.  Specifically,
>> we would like to:
>>
>>         - Re-classify DTrace & MDB as projects, endorsed by the already
>> existing Observability community.
>
> For a myriad of reasons, we feel pretty strongly about staying a Community.
> We feel that a Community more accurately captures the current state of
> DTrace.  This is in part because DTrace is pretty mature -- there is not
> a corpus of evolving code that represents DTrace, and there is not a
> DTrace project team per se, but rather many DTrace-related projects
> (DTrace providers for different environments, subsystems, etc.) led by
> leaders that consist of more than the original DTrace project team.  We
> feel it is much more natural for these projects to be Projects in the
> DTrace community than they Projects living along side DTrace in the
> Observability community.
>
> 	- Bryan

This makes sense, but for some reason it feels like an
exception in the making. On the other hand, it doesn't have
to be, because certain other entities share the
characteristics Bryan describes (mature, etc.). So in theory
they could also request a desire to remain a community. So I
guess it'd be nice if some did, then there'd be a more solid
precedent to point to in the future for examples of
communities that at first glance seem like they should be
projects.

Eric