Shawn Walker wrote: > On 15/11/2007, Irene (Shi Ying) Huang <Irene.Huang at sun.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 05:43 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: >> >>>> I am not sure the processes for Indiana has been decided yet (whether >>>> OSR will be required is still unknown). IMO, if you do not put the >>>> binaries on Opensolaris download center, but somewhere else, you do not >>>> need to worry about the OSRs. >>>> >>> I think that SQLite could provide real value to developers by being >>> integrated as a shared component. This vague resistance to its >>> integration seems rather odd to me, given that MySQL and PostgreSQL >>> already have been integrated. SQLite compared to both of those is >>> positively tiny and is becoming widely-adopted among software >>> developers (thanks Mac OS X, etc.). >>> >>> >> Well, this is a resource related problem. >> > > So a project to ensure it works great on OpenSolaris and an ARC > integration request by a community member could indeed succeed? > Correct? > > That covers the resources involved with just the integration, and IMHO - that would be sufficient to get it initially integrated. The trickier part involves making Sun-supported components dependent upon a community component. Sun can't really claim corporate-support (as opposed to community support) for a component unless it can support all the dependencies up the chain, like they claim to for PostgreSQL.
If SMF is ported to work with a community integrated SQLite, and a customer calls with an issue surrounding SMF's use of SQLite, then Sun has to have resources on hand to triage, debug, and patch the SQLite issue. The current resource constraints surrounding SQLite are that neither ON, nor the DB teams have resources to support ongoing maintenance of SQLite. I don't recall if the Desktop group had resources or not - but last I recall, the discussion was still ongoing. Hope that sheds some additional light on what otherwise seems like a pretty mundane and easy task. :) cheers, steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
