for my part, especially with conceptual solutions that may cross many source files and/or interfaces, some of which may affect source not in ksh proper, I prefer just a bit of discussion before looking at patches
I have no problem with the current situation and feel that the expertise of the participants has settled in nicely (e.g. bits build test standards process) also, w.r.t. workload, David Korn and I feel that many of the problems raised with ksh93-integration would have eventually shown up later in other contexts, possibly with much more work on our part to characterize and fix -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ -- On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:53:10 -0500 James Carlson wrote: > Josh Hurst writes: > > I don't want to join the trolling, but I think there is a problem with > > the "partnership". Roland and Glenn are doing all the work but I can't > > remember if Sun ever contributed code. I see many TO DO charts, lists, > > ARC case materials, plans, drafts and requests to correct code coming > > from Sun but no code, patches or even attempts to provide working > > solutions. This does not look fair. > Color me baffled. > Project teams consist of the folks who are doing the work. That > doesn't give them license to draft others into doing the work. > Are you suggesting that only open projects with Sun people on them are > "legitimate?" Or are you suggesting that reviewers must not submit > comments unless they're willing to fix the code? Or that projects > should be able to integrate without receiving comments from anyone > outside of the project team? Or that code review comments must > consist of diffs? > Or perhaps something else? What would be "fair?" > -- > James Carlson, KISS Network <james.d.carlson at sun.com> > Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 > MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 > _______________________________________________ > ksh93-integration-discuss mailing list > ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ksh93-integration-discuss
