[ogb-discuss] [opensolaris-summit] My comments (very subjective) on proposed Summit topics

[James C. McPherson]

Stephen Lau wrote:
> Darren Reed wrote:
>> Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> It's not bureaucracy (why does everyone think there's so much of it?
>>> Do you know what the word actually means?) but a lack of adequate
>>> infrastructure that makes contributing such a pain.  I blame Sun for
>>> this; its insistence on maintaining control of the infrastructure and
>>> its tortuous legal and policy constraints are a main reason more
>>> progress has not been made.  That said, anyone could put together a
>>> proposal to move all this outside Sun's control and accelerate the
>>> process, yet no one has.  It's unclear whether that's because of
>>> laziness, lack of interest, or lack of means.
>>>  
>>>
>> There are a number of things that need to happen here and
>> they've been raised before (at least by myself):
>>
>> 1) move the opensolaris machinery (web server, repository,
>>    etc) away from being owned by Sun;
> 
> While this is a noteworthy long-term goal, I fail to see what problems 
> this solves in the short-term.
> 
> Who will own them?  Who will maintain them?  Who will be paid to 
> maintain them?


Who owns, runs and maintains kernel.org?
Dare I suggest slashdot, sourceforge and even OSNews as
examples here?



James C. McPherson
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Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems