[ug-discuss] Re: Sponsor Project Indiana

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Peter Tribble wrote:
> On 6/6/07, Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at sun.com> wrote:
>> Should we maybe send an heads-up message to the leadership of
>> the five distros? (Six including Indiana.) I suspect some of
>> them would not otherwise know about this effort.
>
> Having a ditribution community proposal come from elsewhere
> without their involvement and agreement would seem undesirable.
> In fact, they should be leading such an effort - one might rightly
> ask why they did not come up with the proposal themselves?
>
> I have some problems with a distributions community. One is that
> the immediate objective seems to be to find Indiana a home,

Uh oh. Hopefully you're mostly alone in that perception.
That's pretty scary otherwise.

For my part, as most (hopefully) know by now, it's unthinkable (beyond
unthinkable) for that to have been my objective.

Eric