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

[Venky]

> >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.

All or most of the current distributions have transparent
decision-making.  They just don't happen to have dedicated lists
on opensolaris.org.  Most of the decisions for BeleniX happen on
the ug-bosug at opensolaris.org list, for instance.  If all it takes
to become an official OpenSolaris distribution is to have a
dedicated mailing list, maybe the BeleniX team should ask one.

Come to think of it, it might be a good idea anyway to have
distro-specific mailing lists on opensolaris.org.

> >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.

Most of the distributions (SchilliX, BeleniX and probably even
Nexenta) started before the OpenSolaris website was capable of
supporting them.  That shouldn't make them any less worthy of
being called OpenSolaris distributions.

Venky.