site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Hi Will, 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 -Will _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... 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. 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! This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com