Hi, Could not happen soon enough for me!
I understand resolving the immediate issue for this community, but it occurs to me that other groups/projects/etc. could benefit from a more general solution to this problem... I presume the ON flag day/heads up page is manually maintained. Would a separate discussion list, specifically for flags days not also resolve this? Granted it's not editable after the fact, but it would be searchable and something to which anyone may subscribe. Dave Miner wrote: > Caimaniacs, > > We've been requested by several key users to provide a straightforward > communication channel for interface changes to the various installers, > though especially AI, so that those users, including test teams, can > adjust their procedures as needed and keep the train running on time. > Experience during the 2009.06 development cycle indicates that the > prior suggestion to monitor this list for heads-up notices became a > needle-in-a-haystack exercise, hence the request for us to apply some > filtering and interpretation (and simple archiving) to assist them. > > After examining the problem and available channels, I'm proposing to > establish a flag day/heads up page on wikis.sun.com. This would be a > single page, organized by build (somewhat in the manner of the ON flag > day page[1]), wherein we would collect information on user-visible > changes to the installers as they are integrated to the source tree. > Why wikis.sun.com? > > 1. It's available to both the internal and external communities, both > of whom have made requests for this sort of information. > 2. It offers users the ability to "watch" pages, obtaining "push" > notification of updates to this page, which is not offered by the > opensolaris.org web site implementation. The future implementation > based on XWiki offers a similar watch capability, but this channel > needs to be in place now to support the ongoing ramp of test activity > based on OpenSolaris builds. > > I anticipate the following effects on the project developers: > > 1. The gatekeeper (Clay, at present) would add organization of this > page to his duties. This essentially becomes an exercise of > demarcating the builds in the page. > 2. Individual developers continue to be responsible for creating > heads-up/flag day documentation for their integrations, and must now > post it to the new wiki page. > 3. Individual developers continue to send flag day/heads-up mail to > this list, though these can become largely pointers to the wiki page. > > Questions and comments on this proposal are requested by COB > Wednesday, July 29. > > Dave > > [1]http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/116-120/ > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss -- ~~~\0/~~~~ Cheers, Jon. {-%] ======== If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. - Anon. -------- When someone asks you, "Penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? - G. Carlin (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Jon_Aimone.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 305 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090727/bfe776e9/attachment.vcf>
