[ogb-discuss] Creating a place for AMD-related work

[James Carlson]

Ostrovsky, Boris writes:
> We have been discussing a number of options:
> 	- Treat each project as a separate effort and simply find an 
> 	  appropriate community to sponsor it
> 	- Create an AMD community which would (co)-sponsor various
> projects. 
> 	- Create an umbrella AMD project and then have sub-projects
> under it.

Of those, I think the third option is probably the best one, much like
this existing project:

  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/intel-platform/

I agree that the first option gives you a disjoint set of projects and
likely poor coordination.  My concern with the second option is that
this seems too narrow to be a community.

A better community for this area would be a "platform support"
community.  We've discussed this a few times in the past --
particularly with the PPC work -- and now may be the best time to do
this.  Such a community would sponsor projects in the AMD, Intel,
SPARC, and PPC areas, among other places, and would share information
about platform-related issues.

Renaming the existing PPC community and reorganizing the site would be
a start.

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