[ug-bosug] GNU Autotools Material

[Anil Gulecha]

On 8/8/07, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmm.. any particular reason why this is not at www.opensolaris.org/wiki ??
> >
> > As the OS community grows, a newcomer expects to find all information
> > at one site. Spreading stuff all around (opensolaris.org, sun.com,
> > genunix, blastwave, SFW) simply confuses the user.
> >
>
> sun.com is the corporate site.
>
> blastwave and sunfreeware are individual initiatives of Dennis Clarke
> and Steven M.Christensen that existed long before OpenSolaris happened
> and their purpose is provided foss binary installable bits. Do not
> necessarily provide framework for collaborative work.
>
> opensolaris.org is well *the site*
>
> genunix -> (some of) things that do not overlap with opensolaris.org
> [1] It is a demonstrating ground for opensolaris based technology, it
> hosts many servers distributed across zones.
> [2] Provides hosting services to projects, ex: Belenix. Provides
> shell/ssh access.
> [3] When it comes to collaborative documentation, mediawiki works
> really well, genunix hosts mediawiki based wiki.
>
> There are some overlaps between genunix & opensolaris.
>
Yes, I understand that.

My point is the "principle of least surprise" for a newcomer to the
community. He should not be made to move all around the place for
information/download. The above sites are islandized due to historical
reasons, but that doesnt mean they have to stay that way.

IMHO, opensolaris.org should have all of the following:

* project hosting and mailing list(already done)
* help forum (Jive does this)
* wiki (currently at genunix)
* Download of distribution(being worked on by indiana)
* News (being worked on)
* Help/Howto pages (Currently spread across various project pages, and
docs.sun.com. If the wiki is incorporated, a "Howto" section could be
added containing various articles with informative pages.0

Genunix may provide _very good_ wiki and hosting servers, but becomes
something different from opensolaris.org. A user would psychologically
look around at opensolaris.org for information, however he may not
goto genunix (If info isn't available at OS.org, I would turn to
google, rather than genunix. I suspect so would a lot of others.)

If all OS information is moved/maintained at opensolaris.org, the user
needs one registration to access all resources. Also his mindset is
"Hmm.. I need info on <opensolaris topic>. I'll find it at
opensolaris.org" or "How do I go about doing <this>.. let me search at
wiki.opensolaris.org".

This IMHO is much better than "Hmm.. I need to know about <topic>,
shall I goto OS.org? Or genunix? Heck.. I'll just use google"

~2c
Anil