On 15/11/2007, Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> wrote: > 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.
My main purpose is to see what it takes for integration. If Sun chooses to support it as a private interface only (meaning not 3rd parties) in their commercial OS, that is of course their business decision. > 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. That I understand. > 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. Understood. > Hope that sheds some additional light on what otherwise seems like a > pretty mundane and easy task. :) As long as Sun's decision to support something doesn't stop integration into OpenSolaris, I can live with that. I would never expect Sun to support everything that gets integrated. I just don't want Sun business decisions about support to affect possible integrations. If I am not mistaken you are saying it can be integrated, but Sun has their own decisions to make in regards to support. Thanks for your response, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
