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

[Stephen Lau]

James Carlson wrote:
> Glynn Foster writes:
>>    ACTION: Jim to talk to Dennis about PowerPC growing into a community.
> 
> I had a productive chat with Dennis about the PPC community and
> project, and I have what might be a good direction forward.
> 
> Among the things that the PPC project is dealing with, there are a lot
> of bits -- VM subsystem, booting sequence, system start-up -- that are
> all fairly generic to the process of porting Solaris to a new
> architecture.
> 
> As an alternative to simply removing the PPC community, Dennis and I
> both suggest renaming it in the hope of providing broader direction
> for potential projects aimed at other sorts of ports (including,
> likely, ARM), and serving as a repository of information about these
> sorts of projects.
> 
> 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?
> 

What about "Platform Porting"?
either that, or Architecture Bring-up/Porting sound fine to me.

cheers,
steve

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