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

[Darren Reed]

Keith M Wesolowski wrote:

> ...
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>>http://blogs.sun.com/avalon/entry/manufacturing_a_community
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>I'm going to read this a few more times before responding.  You seem
>very angry, and some of what you've written appears at first blush to
>consist of non sequitors.  But I'll keep trying.  In the meantime, is
>there some concrete problem you're facing that we should be looking
>into, or at least know about to have some context.
>

In short, the OpenSolaris community hasn't built itself or sat
down and thought about what structure is best for it.  And we;ve
now got a structure where various groups are uninterested in
change because it might mean that they are "demoted" from
being a community because there is a perception that being one
is a good thing or means you are important or....

Compare, for example, the decision to have communities for
ZFS and SMF with that for security and networking.  On the
one hand you have two (ongoing) projects within Sun, on the
other you have two communities of people with lots of different
projects involved.  The problem we have is that there's only
one level or way to represent a group here: as a community.

But who made all of the decisions about this?  Sun.
Not the OpenSolaris community.

Darren