Re: Apple Opens Up: Mac OS Forge
Re: Apple Opens Up: Mac OS Forge
- Subject: Re: Apple Opens Up: Mac OS Forge
- From: Will Barton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:40:54 -0400
Hi Ernie,
Thanks, I imagine WWDC keeps everyone busy, and I appreciate the
immediate needs of projects looking for a home from OpenDarwin.
My primary intent was to make sure these questions get asked. I
don't expect everything about something as potentially ambitious as
Mac OS Forge to fall into place overnight. I do hope, however, that
Mac OS Forge can become what OpenDarwin failed to.
-Will
On Aug 8, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
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
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