[ogb-discuss] Community Facilitators

[Alan Burlison]

Keith Wesolowski wrote:

>> If you have complaints, I suggest it would be more productive to direct 
>> them to the people who can actually do something about the underlying 
>> issue.
> 
> That depends on what you think the underlying issue is.  I assume -
> correct me if I'm wrong - that your belief is that underresourcing
> within Sun is that issue.  Unlike some people, I don't feel Sun has
> any obligation at all to resource this work.  Assigning and paying two
> engineers to work on it is a gift, one for which we should all be
> thankful and appreciative.  The real issue I had was lack of ability
> for anyone not employed by Sun to contribute; I'm hopeful that we'll
> see others getting R/W access and fixing some of these problems soon.

Good luck on your quest, personally I think you'll find it has 
relatively little to do with ability to contribute.  My experience of 
the opensolaris community is that, with a few stellar exceptions, it is 
long on windbagging and short on contributing.  Am I disillusioned?  You 
bet.

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Alan Burlison
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