Re: [alliance] Fw: Freedows/Alliance Split: One Year Later

["Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr" <midryder@intcon.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Stefano Costa <Stefano.Costa@italtel.it>
To: <alliance@humbolt.nl.linux.org>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 4:12 AM
Subject: Re: [alliance] Fw: Freedows/Alliance Split: One Year Later


> Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr wrote:
>
> > 'Ello all - I'm going to do this a little odd.  See, Spence is writing
an
> > article on the Alliance and Freedows split - a rather nice idea, I
think.
>
> first question: an article *where* and *when*?

Whenever it gets posted on /. - it may be a while.  Spence is waiting on
Freedows to answer at the moment, but, I don't know how long he is going to
wait for them.

> > > Where can the specifications and code be found?
> >
> > On CSV.  Where?  Ummm.... I don't have the addy for the CSV off hand
right
> > now.  However, it's uploaded daily to FTP:
> > ftp://ftp.allos.org/pub/allos/trees/daily/
>
> On CVS :).

Sheesh - one typo! <GRIN>

> > > *What features does Alliance currently plan to include in the first
> > > release?
>
> Ah, this is a beautiul question, and as any beautiful questions, rise
other
> questions :).
> By definition, Alliance will give an environment friendly to support OS
> emulation, so after Alliance is stable won't run anything by its own.
It's
> true that we will develop as both testbed and for our pleasure an AK that
> emulates a popular OS (we haven't decide yet which), so after a while you
can
> run the apps of this OS on top of Alliance. If we succed, many other
people
> will do the job after.....

Gee, can we put this up for popular vote? <EVIL GRIN>

> > > *When Alliance split with Freedows, how many people actually left and
> > > how many actually stayed, not counting those who had signed up for
the
> > > project but had not received a position?
>
> All developers of Freedows left, plus someone else. I don't know how many
> members Freedows has at the time, but I think that more than half left.

Mathew, Daryl, Jon-o, and Myself werent' developers, but more along the
lines of 'support personelle'

> > > *How did the events that lead up to the Freedows/Alliance split
affect
> > > the organization of Alliance?
>
> Mailny hiearchies are not enforced, opposed to Freedows Project.


A kinda "For the record" thing here.  I was the one that drew up the
hierarchies for Freedows long back - however, they weren't something that
was supposed to be 'enforced' :-(  It was a general guideline so that
everyone knew who was working on what, so if they had an idea about 'X' or
wanted to contribute to 'X', they hunted down who was involved with 'X',
and what the mailing list was, etc.  It was for information purposes only.
However, that vision seemed to change as time went on from an informal set
of rules to something a lot more structured!!!  I have no friggin' idea
WHY - over structuring of the teams isn't a good thing, and only allowing
'official' type contact sucks.

Midnight Ryder
Aka Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr
Ambassador for Alliance
...In retrospect, I would have been better off to have shot myself rather
than draw up that original organizational chart for Freedows!  MUCH less
headache!

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