One week of infrastructure issues
One week of infrastructure issues
Posted Aug 22, 2008 2:54 UTC (Fri) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)In reply to: One week of infrastructure issues by gman
Parent article: One week of infrastructure issues
Yes opening up infrastructure and and shaking up an existing established workflow inside a company fence line takes time and non-trivial effort. Both from an engineering standpoint and from a legal standpoint. If doing that work is OpenSolaris's intentions then I applaud the effort and I look forward to each of the incremental steps as they take place. Its hard work clearing internal company hurdles to make those incremental steps happen. Just what ever you do, don't reach for or build a new set of proprietary tools to form the basis of your community infrastructure and community contribution process. Don't build your own launchpad. If you can avoid that trap, and take advantage of existing open tech or if you have to build your own open tech... it will pay off when your community wants to help adjust the community facing tools, because they'll be able to step in and do it for themselves. Human code review isn't the issue, someone will always have to be the final say on some issue and for something like the kernel that person should be someone who is deeply invovled in its development. Not going to get any arguments from me there. Cultivating deeply technical community contribution is a process in itself. It starts with code access, and then it grows via development process participation, and then in culminates in development process leadership in new areas...areas your company didn't really think about at the beginning of the process of opening up. -jef
