[ogb-discuss] LDoms Community Proposal redux ...

[Ashley Saulsbury]

Brandorr wrote:
> Tony,
> 
>  From my understanding, projects can be promoted to communities, but 
> communities can not be demoted to projects.
> 
> That being the case, you might consider a third approach to getting up 
> and runnning quickly. Seek approval from the Xen community for a new 
> project "ldom". This is the fastest path to getting up and running 
> quickly, as it only involves approval at the CG level. At a latter date, 
> ldom could be promoted to a full community, or moved into the 
> virtualization community as a project (or set of projects).

Our request is for full community status.

At some future date if the Xen and Zones communities agree we can work 
towards merging to a single virtualization community.

Right now we have shipping product we want to open for community 
involvement - that's not the Xen community or the Zones community.

cheers,

ash.





> 
> -Brian
> 
> On 8/7/07, *Tony Shoumack* <Tony.Shoumack at sun.com 
> <mailto:Tony.Shoumack at sun.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi All,
> 
>     There has been a fairly robust discussion regarding the various
>     approaches
>     to virtualization communities at OpenSolaris, the complexities around
>     complementary/orthogonal technologies, and the somewhat multi-faceted
>     structure of LDoms in terms of technology layers and their various
>     status'
>     of open-source (Hypervisor, Solaris drivers and LDoms Manager).
> 
>     Combining these into an overall virtualization community is certainly
>     the
>     most logical end-game.
> 
>     However, as a starting point could we look at putting together an LDoms
>     community as a stand-alone - similar to XEN, Zone etc..  This will give
>     some point of focus as we move towards opensource for LDoms and once in
>     place, look at the best way to roll all up as part of a larger
>     virtualization community in the longer term?
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Tony
>     --
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