Jon Aimone wrote: > 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. >
Yes, they are manually maintained, and I'm not in a position to throw any more effort at this problem. > 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. > One reason I did not select this option is a desire not to fragment the discussions related to the project. Additionally, this will be organized, as well as searchable, which mail archives are not. Dave > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
