Re: Apple Opens Up: Kernel, Mac OS Forge, iCal Server, Bonjour, Launchd
Re: Apple Opens Up: Kernel, Mac OS Forge, iCal Server, Bonjour, Launchd
- Subject: Re: Apple Opens Up: Kernel, Mac OS Forge, iCal Server, Bonjour, Launchd
- From: Will Barton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 11:33:21 -0400
On Aug 7, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
B. New "Mac OS Forge" for Community Projects
Mac OS Forge, a new community site hosted by Apple, is being
created to support WebKit and other open source projects focused on
Mac OS X, especially those looking to transition from OpenDarwin.org.
<http://www.macosforge.org/>
I have a couple of questions as to the nature of Mac OS Forge. It's
unclear exactly what the relationship of Mac OS Forge is to Apple
from the website or this announcement. It is also unclear as to how
the mentioned "other open source projects" (presumably, external to
Apple) would go about being hosted at Mac OS Forge, if they desired.
The second question really goes back to the first in a few ways,
namely whether an open source project would have to meet some kind of
standard of a focus on Mac OS X, and whether that judgement is made
within Apple, by members of the community that Mac OS Forge hopes to
attract, or some other process altogether, and what degree of
transparency can be expected. Transparency is pretty important in
building a healthy community, in my very humble opinion.
I recognize that Mac OS Forge is new, and there are probably a lot of
related issues that need ironing out, but the website is just a
little bit vague on actual details. I do apologize ahead of time if
all this information is to be made clear in the near future.
As to the rest of the announcements, xnu is definitely welcomed, as
is the Apache licensing of Bonjour and Launchd!
-Will
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