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

[Darren Reed]

John Plocher wrote:

> Peter Tribble wrote:
>
>> So how do we encourage communities and individuals to take up the
>> reins of governance?
>
>
> Not to be flippant, but why would they want to?
>
> That is, what problems are they currently having that could
> be solved by their spending energy on self-governance?
>
> My perspective is that the answer is that there are lots of
> serious problems, none of which can effectively be solved thru
> self-governance alone.
>
> Problem 1:  The structure of the meta-community echoes the
> confusion in people's minds of what exactly OpenSolaris is
> and should be.  Because people are not in agreement with
> what it is, there is no consensus on how it should be
> structured.
>
> Problem 2: The observable artifacts of the community are
> still locked away from direct community manipulation:  The
> source tree, the bug database, the web site, the mailing
> list infrastructure, the ON C-Team and even the ARCs are
> /ALL/ solely maintainable by a set of under-resourced,
> under-appreciated and constantly dwindling group of Sun
> employees.
>
> Solve these problems and the community of developers will
> grow.  Ignore them, and it will stagnate and die.


So a question that needs to be asked is, considering where
we want to go, is it easier to just build something "new" and
let Sun work out how it wants to join up with that, rather than
to try and morph what we have into something else?

ie. Instead of trying to get part of bugster out of Sun, create
a new bug reporting database for OpenSolaris, independant
of Sun's internal database, and so on.

Darren