"Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> > There is no justification for maintaining a separate branch of the ON
> > tree. The backbone of the OS.o is the ON consolidation, forking it
> > essentially breaks the very idea of *unified processes* that this
> > proposal talks about.
>
> Actually there is. See Nexenta, SchilliX, Belenix. Each of them had
> completely reasonable justification for maintaining their own code for
> functionality not available in the main ON tree. They still do.
>
> This proposal does not involve forking at all as I mentioned before.
>
> Forking and unified processes are not incompatible.
>
> Many of the the Linux kernel maintainers have their own tree that they
> maintain, but they mainline kernel tree is the one that matters.
An important reason why this happens with Linux is the fact that Linus Torvalds
decides what to put into the official kernel and what not. This is why I
mentioned in December 2004 already that we need written down rules and a
constitution to prevent similar things with OpenSolaris.
> > But incorrect reason is attributed to the past problems.
> > Tools that are used to build Indiana are reaching maturity. There are
> > no attempts to create a distro at OS.o without using these tools. They
> > are no reasons to believe existing distros outside OS.o will join OS.o
> > if this CG materializes in its current form.
> > Infact I believe the contrary is true, but this needs to be verified
> > with the distro leaders themselves.
>
> That isn't true. Nexenta, SchilliX, and Belenix were all built without
> these tools.
Correct!
A specific tool set typically enforces a specific layout of the boot filesystem
and may set other contraints for the distribution.
The tool set used by SchilliX makes the creation of a new SchiliX version
simple. A tool set that has been created without closely looking at SchilliX
may be completely unusable for SchilliX.
J?rg
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