On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Glynn Foster wrote: > > Eric Boutilier wrote: >> To my way of thinking, Indiana (the new OpenSolaris binary distro, or >> whatever it ends up being called) introduces new product management >> cycles on Nevada (what Marc, Ian, and Glynn are hugely engaged in doing >> here); it introduces a different release cycle program; it plans to use >> open decision-making; and plans to accelerate the fixing of all non >> open-source bits. > > And encouraging people to think about what may make sense in a new open source > world - for example, we had a good discussion at PSARC over how the current > interface and release taxonomy only made compatibility guarantees whenever a > Solaris 11^W^WNext got shipped, and thus potentially alienating any derivative > distribution wanting to be binary compatible.
[Lightbulb goes on!] Ah, so the ~every-three-years compatibility guarantee milestones (we've always provided for ISVs and other app developers) are no longer frequent enough now that Solaris is open-source. It'd be very cool if we could start doing that more often. > > Well worth listening to John's mp3 recording, FWIW. > How long is it? Also, somehow I missed or overlooked over the posting of the URL too. Do you have that handy? --Eric P.S. Now that we're 2-years-on, I'm not sure I'd exactly call this "the *new* open source world". ;-) _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
