[ug-discuss] Re: Sponsor Project Indiana

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Simon Phipps wrote:
>
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 16:14, Stephen Lau wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> In which case many other aspects of OpenSolaris belong here. I'd suggest 
> though that a "Distributions" community is a more appropriate venue.
>
>> 
>>> 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.
>
> Right now there exactly zero distributions developed withing the community -

As I said, that's wrong. Nexenta, BeleniX and other existing distros are,
by all rights and intentions, projects of and by the OpenSolaris community.
The Nexenta project leadership sees it that way too:
     http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-March/026 547.html

Eric


> that's not my words, that (as Laurent points out elsewhere) is how we 
> describe ourselves on http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/ :
>> The main difference between the OpenSolaris project and the Solaris 
>> Operating System is that the OpenSolaris project does not provide an 
>> end-user product or complete distribution.
>
> What multiple people have suggested is it's time to change that as it is 
> confusing for newcomers. I completely support that change.
>
> S.
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