Lack of organization. We, as a Community still do not know how many people are working on some particular project. We still do not know how much work has do be done, and how much engineers we have (Sun's + Community).
Consequently, we do not have exact roadmaps for some of flagship projects. That is my point of view to whole situation. Uros Nedic Belgrade, Serbia > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:31:20 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] current state of affairs.. > > > > Shawn Walker wrote: >> >>> My main point of this email is - inspite of having great kernel and >>> cool features within OpenSolaris, if we don't ship the latest and >>> stable open source tools, engineers can't use OSOL as their primary >>> dev workstation.. >> >> Building a tested and support operating system, by necessity, means >> freezing the versions of software contained within it. It is not >> practical to expect the latest versions of open source software, >> especially with projects that move very quickly, to always be available. >> >> I would also note that: >> >> * the necessary resources are not currently available to update >> software as frequently as you suggest > Shawn > I do not expect that we ship a version that is released only 3 months > before the release. The version that we ship was released on Dec'2007. > I just needed some of the features of 1.5.x - > http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectNewsList > > I am sure, there will other components lying down there (with yet again > same excuse - lack of resource). Do you think, Ubuntu folks have > thousands of developers just doing version updates. I don't know for > sure but this is definitely a solved problem. We just don't know how to > solve it. > > - Sriram > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
