[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, which
> seems backward (especially given that the Install community is a
> pretty good fit, and while not all the core contributors have chimed
> in yet, we have the required 3 +1 votes and no -1 yet). The other is
> that, constitutionally, a community exists to initiate and manage
> projects, so that if it were to do what it's supposed to then the
> distributions would either (a) choose to not be a part of the
> distributions community, or (b) no longer be independent agents
> free to do their own thing. Neither option seems desirable, so why
> create a formal management structure?

Good point. Code talks.

So I agree that the degree and diversity of interest that comes from the
distros (or not) will strengthen (or weaken) this proposal proportionally,
and that it should probably be aborted if the distros mostly explicitely
object to the creation of a distros community group.

Eric