Re: Apple Opens Up: Mac OS Forge
Re: Apple Opens Up: Mac OS Forge
- Subject: Re: Apple Opens Up: Mac OS Forge
- From: Ernest Prabhakar <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:12:56 -0700
Hi Will,
We're all pretty buried with WWDC, but we definitely plan to provide
more information once things quiet down. The urgent priority is
making sure we have a home for those projects needing to transition
off OpenDarwin, as well as Apple's new initiatives like calendaring.
Long term, we're looking to the community to find out what -they-
need Mac OS X Forge to be, relative to the many other wonderful
hosting options available.
Best,
-- Ernie P.
On Aug 8, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Will Barton wrote:
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
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Darwin-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden