[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> Last I heard, the plan is for SXDE to go away and be replaced by
>> Indiana. SXCE, on the other hand, should stay.
>
> SXCE should continue until it's no longer needed. In my mind, there
> are a number of things any proposed SXCE replacement needs to do in
> order to be *the* replacement including:
>
> 1) Implementing all the existing, ARCed functionality of the
> existing SXCE release (note that some of that functionality may
> be available via a package repository rather than on the media
> itself). Any existing functionality which isn't going to be
> available in the replacement needs to have been properly EOLed
> and then EOFed.
>
> 2) Obviously, any other changes to interfaces between SXCE and
> its replacement need to be ARC approved as well.
>
> 3) There needs to be sufficient means to test the replacement.
> For example, hands-off installation via something like
> JumpStart needs to exist before SXCE can go away since that
> type of technology is used for running automated tests, build
> by build.
>
> 4) There are obviously other criteria as well that needs to be
> defined and then adhered to in the areas of quality,
> performance, etc.
And:
5) Needs to be usable to build the full set of opensolaris
consolidations.
You can't remove the only working build host system we have, and
replace it with something that hampers development.
(unless, of course, you have indiana to the point it will host builds,
already).
-- Rich
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