About blastwave.org and opencsw.org

The blastwave.org and opencsw.org repositories both provide open-source software builds for Solaris. The projects forked in August 2008 and operate now under separate management. Their respective principals describe the circumstances of the fork differently.

This is a department of mathematics. We like math here more than we like sorting out differences of people we haven't met. The two projects seem to emphasize somewhat different goals, one with a stronger focus on support for legacy Solaris versions, one with a concentration on OpenSolaris and beyond. There is a natural audience for each, and we mirror both.

Additional reading

Some material about the fork of blastwave and opencsw that has been posted publicly and was easy to find is linked below. These links should not be relied on as a complete collection of everything pertinent; they are simply links that we looked at while trying to get a picture of the situation, and we were chiefly concerned with finding at least one fairly detailed and representative statement of each project's position. Perhaps they will be of some help to others, though we would rather see a joint official statement from the two projects.

Article in Heise Online of 11 August 2008.
Responses to Heise article, which include:
Response from Dennis Clarke of Blastwave	Response from Philip Brown of opencsw
Contemporaneous thread on opensolaris-discuss concerning unavailability of Blastwave repository on 6 August 2008 and recovery efforts, including:
Message from Philip Brown of opencsw	Message from Dennis Clarke of Blastwave
Later thread in solarisx86 Yahoo group