[ogb-discuss] Proposal for HA Clusters Community

[Stephen Lau]

Nicholas Solter wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Stephen Lau wrote:
>> Hi Nicholas,
>>     Thanks for the proposal, I have a few questions:
>>
>> 1) Is it necessary that you have the community group setup before your 
>> source code is available/published?  I only ask because I'm not 
>> entirely comfortable with the idea of giving governance representation 
>> and voting grants to a community that doesn't yet have open code or 
>> open development.
>>
> 
> I believe that currently under opensolaris every project needs a 
> community. There don't seem to be any existing communities under which 
> HA Cluster technology would fit. So, yes, I think we do need a community 
> group before we can publish the source code. Please correct me if I'm 
> misunderstanding the rules.
> 
> I promise that we will very soon have open code and open development -- 
> but first we need the community to be approved to get things started :-)

Fair enough, that seems fine to me.

>> 2) What will the community's initial content be?  Will it be entirely 
>> Sun Cluster focused, or will it be more generalised as the community 
>> name suggests?
> 
> The initial content, as contributed from Sun, will be the source code 
> for Solaris Cluster. However, see the answer to your next question.
> 
>>
>> 3) Similar to #2, but more generally: will your community 
>> endorse/sponsor community work/projects focused on HA Clusters, but 
>> involving non-Sun Cluster code?
> 
> Yes, we will definitely endorse and sponsor projects involving non-sun 
> Cluster code. We have no intention of making this an exclusive Sun 
> Cluster community.

Good to hear.

>> 4) Do you have a plan for involving non-Sun employees (i.e.: 
>> documentation, tutorials, code walk-throughs, etc.) to help bring them 
>> up to speed with your development process and source code?
> 
> Yes. We certainly want to encourage non-Sun community involvement. We 
> will provide the kinds of documentation you mention, specifically 
> instructions for building the code, code walk-throughs, instructions for 
> contributing, etc. Additionally, we are hoping to get a cluster 
> presentation accepted for the Sun Tech Days OpenSolaris day for next 
> year, and are planning to meet with various OpenSolaris user groups. And 
> we are open to suggestions for any other efforts that we can undertake 
> to help build a community.

Also good to hear.

Thanks for the prompt response.  You have my +1 vote.

cheers,
steve
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