[ogb-discuss] What is OpenSolaris?

[Alan Coopersmith]

or more specifically, what projects/communities should be joining
the OpenSolaris community?    Is OpenSolaris the right place for
any open source project coming from a Sun product that doesn't fit
into java.net or another existing community?

We've already seen in the Storage & Cluster recent additions that
were not traditionally part of the Solaris OS, but extra-charge
products layered on top, and for most of the things they've released,
they may make sense as part of OpenSolaris.

However I've had some informal talks recently with people from two
other projects in Sun who are looking at how to open source (and I'm
sorry, but I can't name them publicly at this time) - they're also
both traditionally unbundled products that run on top of either
Solaris or Linux - should they come to OpenSolaris.org to request a
project or a community, what should we tell them?   Are we the place
to host projects that deliver primarily on Solaris, but also ship
versions for other platforms?   (I suppose DTrace & ZFS already fall
into the that category, due to the MacOS X & BSD ports.)

What if they don't support running on Nevada at all, but only on
Solaris 10 or older releases?   Should a project seeking support
from OpenSolaris.org be required to run on at least one OpenSolaris
distro?   (be it Solaris Express, Nexenta, Belenix, Indiana or
another one?)


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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering