[ogb-discuss] Device Driver Community

[Alan DuBoff]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> Control over the community != control over the code. 
> The code is control by CRT advocates, and each consolidation has its own 
> rules about that.

Garrett,

My thinking was in trying to have licensees, as is done today with PSARC, 
for instance. Today you need to go through a licensee, and I was thinking 
the core contributer for a given community would be that type of person.

Maybe what I'm proposing is that you be the licensee for the device driver 
community, when the ARCs are formed. I was trying to have some type of 
control over our community so that someone could have the word on wether 
something is worthy of going back into OpenSolaris or not.

As an example, just because a driver was ported and/or compiles is not 
reason for the code to be putback into OpenSolaris without proper 
justification and/or approval. Today that all happens inside of Sun.

That will change soon.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group