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

[Stephen Lau]

Simon Phipps wrote:
> I'm afraid I don't agree on either count.
> 
> This is an engineering project. It is not Marketing or Advocacy. It 
> should be in a place where co-development engineers will participate. 
> That is not here.

But isn't part of Indiana about addressing the perceived needs of 
non-Solaris users?  Doesn't that involve marketing and advocacy?

> Secondly, the name. If there is exactly one distribution developed 
> within the OpenSolaris community, it will be called "the OpenSolaris 
> distribution" whatever artificial attempts are made to name it something 
> else.

But there isn't exactly one distribution... we have 5 that I count (not 
including Indiana).  Indiana will only be called "the OpenSolaris 
distribution" if people insist on it.  That's what I'm opposed to.

cheers,
steve
-- 
stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net
opensolaris // solaris kernel development