The First Birthday

June 14, 2006 General Comments Off

OpenSolaris is officially one year old today. Jim did an excellent review of the year, and some stunning results. During that year, I’ve had some personal highlights – JDS being the first non-ON consolidation to release their code, and the many new people I’ve had the pleasure of working with in the community.

Despite all those wonderful metrics, we’re still a growing community. We still have a lot of source code behind closed doors. The community contributions are still being bootstrapped by a relatively small set of people. We still don’t have our code in a source code management system. We’re still a little way off from a governance model. There’s still a lot of people in Sun that don’t quite grok working in an open source community.

But hell, there’s a lot of one year olds that can barely walk or articulate, and for an evolving open source community, OpenSolaris is doing just peachy. Happy birthday dude.