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

[Stephen Lau]

James C. McPherson wrote:
> 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?

kernel.org isn't much more than a download site.

> Dare I suggest slashdot, sourceforge and even OSNews as
> examples here?

I don't believe /. & osnews establish communities.
Sourceforge is probably a more relevant example, but Sourceforge creates 
micro-communities with hardly any attempt to have cross-project 
communication.

opensolaris.org is attempting to be everything (or at least all-things 
OpenSolaris related) to everyone, and I would argue that that is 
probably its fallacy.

There is no *single* Linux community site, why should there need to be a 
single opensolaris.org site?  Frankly, I think it'd be good for the 
health of our community if people did take stuff elsewhere and do 
interesting things on their own.

cheers,
steve
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