[ogb-discuss] Device Driver Community

[John Plocher]

ohmygod - I think I'm agreeing with Keith,
and in public, too!  :-) :-)

Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> to take a device
> driver as a seemingly obvious example, shouldn't an author seek the
> advice of the DTrace Community Group with respect to SDT probe

> project team is all but certain to work with more than one.

Better yet, shouldn't each community be encouraged to
publish artifacts (checklists, best practices, howtos,
tools, ...)  that all developers could use to ensure
that their efforts align in the best possible ways?
It simply doesn't scale to expect every single development
project team to individually engage with every related
community - the churn and learning-curve burnouts alone
would doom it to failure.


>  I'll be damned if I can construct a
> meaningful Community Group that

That is why I have been pushing for clarification
(both in intent and, if needed, in constitutional
changes) of the relationship between Communities
and Consolidations, since the former don't quite
work for the needs of the latter...

> you've seen that
> things are absolutely moving in the right direction.

Absolutely!  Although Stephen seems to have blurred
the distinction between his OpenSolaris life and his
personal one with his upcoming merge with the Wendy
community :-)
http://whacked.net/2007/04/30/my-last-week-of-bachelorhood/

> But it's very obvious that most people
> don't want such a structure, and don't believe they could be
> productive within it. 

Where do you see evidence of this?  (especially the
implication you have of "most"...)

> it's unclear
> how the ARC is to be represented in the new model - it works poorly as
> a Community Group

Could you expand on this thought?  I don't necessarily
disagree, but I would like to understand other
perspectives.

   -John