[ogb-discuss] ppc community direction [was Re: OGB Meeting Minutes :: 11/7/07]

[Keith M Wesolowski]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:32:29PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:

> A potential pitfall of picking such a new name is that others will
> likely confuse it with the problem of porting software _onto_ Solaris
> (a la /usr/ports on BSD) instead of the problem of porting Solaris
> itself.  So, the name needs to be clear.  Some possible ideas:
> 
>   Architecture Porting
>   Architecture Bring-up
>   Porting OpenSolaris
> 
> In addition to this, I suggested (and Dennis agreed) that the PPC
> project should solicit more sponsors, such as Appliances, so that the
> necessary communication occurs.
> 
> Assuming we can rally the rest of the community around the idea -- I
> haven't talked with them yet; only Dennis -- can we potentially get
> consensus among the OGB members around renaming (and rechartering) the
> existing community?

I remember going around on this a couple times in the past.  This
solution seems fine to me, and of the three my preference for naming
would be Bring-up.

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