[ogb-discuss] Ben's Agenda Items for Jan 23rd, 2008

[Joerg Schilling]

Keith M Wesolowski <keith.wesolowski at sun.com> wrote:

> The code in the consolidations.  The processes are variably open.  ARC
> is pretty open.  The ON C-team is pretty closed.  Other C-teams are a
> mixed bag.  Code review resources are available but not as well
> integrated as we might like.  Direct access to most consolidations is
> missing.  To get where (I think) we want to go, all C-teams need to be
> open both for interaction and membership, all gates need to be
> accessible, and the tools that support the processes need to be
> available and well-integrated.  DUH![*]
>
> Sun's products.  Not our business.  They can do whatever they want
> with them.  Hopefully they'll like what we're doing and use our work.
>
> Products created under our umbrella.  Remains to be seen what the
> community role is in these.  I suspect the right answer is what Herr
> Schilling has said: the responsibility for deciding what to do with
> them lies with the people who actually do the work.  The product teams
> decide what kind of processes and internal governance they want.  If
> the rest of the community doesn't like the result, too bad for us.  We
> might as well do it this way because we cannot prevent people from
> taking our stuff and doing this anyway somewhere else.

It may be worth to read this:

http://www.heise.de/open/Sun-und-die-Open-Source-Community--/artikel/100564

The author is known for previous inapposite Sun/Solaris criticism but this
text looks definitely more neutral.

Jörg

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