[ug-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Sponsor Project Indiana

[Simon Phipps]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:14, Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:

> You are saying that the other OpenSolaris based distributions
> are created outside the OpenSolaris community?  Is this
> by virtue of them having their own websites and distribution
> mechanisms?

Yes, and most importantly their own discussion mechanisms (if any).  
The actual tasks of defining and constructing the distributions (a  
combination of editorial decision and engineering activity) are  
conducted elsewhere than opensolaris.org by people who are indeed  
members of the OpenSolaris community.

The main novelty of the various proposals for an OpenSolaris  
distribution including the Indiana proposal is to have at least one  
distribution constructed collaboratively inside the community. I  
believe the key factor here is transparent decision-making.


> Was the OpenSolaris website even equiped to handle such a download
> and was that perhaps the reason that those other distributions
> went elsewhere?

I believe that the resources necessary for building a distribution  
are available on opensolaris.org, although the resources needed to  
sustain it (mainly a repository for hosting the package system I  
think) are not. It's perfectly possible some tuning and refactoring  
will be necessary as whatever system we all create gains momentum.

S.