Fwd: Apple Opens Up: Mac OS Forge

Hi All-

While this email from Ernie was directed at someone else on the  
darwin-dev@apple list, it is still pertinent to the discussion at  
hand:  effectively, sit tight while they finish up the WWDC.

Ernie specifically says:  "The urgent priority is making sure we have  
a home for those projects needing to transition off OpenDarwin..."

-Lance


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ernest Prabhakar <[email protected]>
> Date: August 8, 2006 1:12:56 PM EDT
> To: Will Barton <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Apple Opens Up: Mac OS Forge
>
> 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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