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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?
From:       Shawn Walker <shawn.walker () oracle ! com>
Date:       2010-09-16 20:06:54
Message-ID: 4C9278DE.8070209 () oracle ! com
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On 09/16/10 11:38 AM, Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
> Calum Benson<calum.benson@oracle.com>  wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 16 Sep 2010, at 14:04, Ashish Nabira wrote:
> > 
> > > Lets add those important packages to repositories and make OpenIndiana popular \
> > > to newbies....That's one good way to make it popular .
> > 
> > Anyone who wanted to was always free to contribute such packages to OpenSolaris, \
> > via spec-files-extra and later, Source Juicer.  Not many people ever did, and of \
> > those, not everyone subsequently kept them up to date.  If OpenIndiana can find \
> > the people to port and maintain a large package library that Sun/Oracle never \
> > could, then fair play to them!
> 
> The main problem with OpenSolaris under Sun was that it was close to
> impossible to contribute. This was not a problem from missing contributors but
> a problem caused by the was Sun did interact with contributors.

It was quite possible to contribute.  Obviously, it's harder to do some 
things than others.  But it really wasn't as hard as you imply.

-Shawn
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