[ogb-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Eric Boutilier]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, James Carlson wrote:
> Bill Sommerfeld writes:
>> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 15:47 +0000, Simon Phipps wrote:
>>> If you want a vote, have it in January after the heat has dissipated
>>> and we have experience to feed wisdom.
>>
>> The heat will dissipate much more quickly if the ignition source is put
>> away, at least temporarily.  (and just to be clear: IMHO the ignition
>> source is *not* the bulk of the Indiana prototype distro -- merely the
>> name it was given).
>
> Agreed; that's the problem.
>
>> questions on that poll could well include:
>>
>> 1) should we ask Sun to rename the so-called "OpenSolaris Developer
>> Preview" to a name which includes "Project Indiana"?
>>
>> 2) should we ask Sun to rename the so-called "OpenSolaris Developer
>> Preview" to a name which does not include the word "OpenSolaris"?
>
> The only question I want decided is whether the community is ready
> _now_ to have an OpenSolaris distribution.  We can always adopt one or
> another distribution as "the reference one" at any point.  The issue
> on the table is that someone updated www.opensolaris.org to say that
> Indiana's product is _the_ OpenSolaris distribution...
>

Wow, I hadn't looked there until just now. Reading it triggers a
greater sense of urgency, that's for sure.

Eric

>
> and that's just not right.
>
> It clearly does not reflect any community-wide decision on the use of
> the opensolaris.org web site or about the adoption of a reference
> distribution.
>
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