> X-Unix-From: roland.mainz at nrubsig.org Wed Feb 15 22:54:44 2006 > > Mike Kupfer wrote: > > >>>>> "Roland" == Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> writes: > > >> We should also have Subversion support on opensolaris.org "soon". > > >> But if the team wants to use Subversion, I guess using genunix.org > > >> would help things get started more quickly. > > > > Roland> The idea of using a branch at genunix.org was to create a > > Roland> prototype for development, testing and evaluation. > > > > Hmm. I'm a little concerned about this possible scenario: a bunch of > > work is done to get everything working with genunix.org[1], then a > > relatively small amount of development work happens--enough to meet the > > minimal requirements for integration into ON--, then April integrates > > ksh93 into the OpenSolaris source base. At that point, there would be > > three different source bases (the OpenSolaris one, the genunix one, and > > the AT&T one). Seems like it could get messy. > > Erm... actually my idea was to work on the prototype at genunix.org in a > branch based on a more or less stable version of OpenSolaris (e.g. > builds+boots on both x86 and SPARC without problems). Once the prototype > has been finished&&approved the work gets moved to the OpenSolaris > repository within Sun. At this point the branch at genunix.org will be > abadoned so we only have to deal with two versions: Sources in > OpenSolaris and the official AT&T distribution. > > > On the other hand, I like the idea of a project with both internal and > > external committers. And I can see where making the commit mail > > available would be a good thing, as you say. > > The idea is actully coming from OpenSource projects such as Mozilla.org > or X.org/Xfree86 where this is the standard to keep everyone informed. > > > *shrug* It's not clear to me what the right approach is. April, do you > > have any thoughts on this?
If putting a prototype on genunix.org allows us easier collaboration on the work, then I am for it.
