Re: [Chromium-announce] Commercial Support for the Chromium Projec

[Randall F. <fr...@ll...>]

Ok,

To answer at least part of John's questions for everyone, the
contract goes into effect immediately.  Greg will serve as the
technical lead/primary developer on the project, he is most
definitely not "handing over the reigns" to VA Linux.  We believe
an appropriate level of coordination exists between the two
groups to ensure successful parallel efforts.  I believe we
see the efforts of both groups to be very complimentary and
I personally do not forsee any conflicts.

At present, I think the best route for the Chromium community
at large to contribute is to report bugs and post fixes as
appropriate.  I would ask the individuals who wish to contribute
larger portions of code contact Greg or myself.  As user
contributed SPUs start to be developed, I would expect that
something akin to a 'contrib' arm of the distribution might
have to be created (note, I am speaking a little off the cuff
here, so if I have overstepped a bit, please let me know Greg).

Hopefully that address most of the noted concerns...

Thanks.

At 11:30 AM 9/6/2001 -0600, John Clyne wrote:
>Randy, this is some exciting news. When does the contract go into effect?
>Will development proceed in parallel between Stanford (I.e. Greg) and
>VA Linux? How will these efforts be coordinated or is Greg simply handing
>over the reigns to VA Linux? Will there still be a mechanism for the
>community to provide enhancements/fixes  to Cr? What will that mechanism
>look like?
>
>thanks - jc
>
>What will the relationship be between
>Randall Frank writes:
> >
> > Hello,
> >       As I alluded to at the earlier kick-off meeting at
> > Stanford, I would like to announce the following:
> >
> >         Commercial Support for the Chromium Project
> >
> >      As part of the ASCI VIEWS project PathForward funding,
> > the DOE/tri-labs have signed a contract with VA Professional
> > Services (VA Linux) to enhance and extend the Chromium
> > framework.  This effort includes development of formal
> > testing suites, additional features (e.g. multi-context
> > support) and optimizations.  This 14 month, multi-person
> > effort is to be lead by Brian Paul.  We believe that the
> > addition of these dedicated resources to the current Open
> > Source Chromium effort will aid in our ultimate goal of
> > making available a distributed, scalable, parallel
> > rendering framework robust enough to support "real-world"
> > applications and extensible enough to encapsulate new
> > parallel rendering research.
> >
> > If you have any questions regarding this announcement,
> > please contact Randy Frank <rj...@ll...>.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > rjf.
> >
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rjf.

Randall Frank                           | Email:  rj...@ll...
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