[Please - move this over to trademark-policy-dev!]
Ignacio Marambio Cat?n wrote:
> but how do we check they are really compliant?
From all the discussions on this topic, I think we have the following
potential options:
A) we invent, build and endorse a comprehensive test suite that
can be used to validate a baseline, or
B) we simply point at a particular instance and define it to be
the baseline reference, or
C) we define a set of source code/consolidations to be the baseline, or
D) we define a set of versioned binary packages in a repository to
be the baseline, or
E) something else that hasn't been discussed yet.
Today, with Solaris and the various derived OpenSolaris distros,
we have a mix of B and C; ISVs have things that run on Solaris,
but it is only because the distros are built using a common OS/Net
source tree (that is vigorously managed by the ARCs) that there
is any hope of compatibility between them.
Going forward, IMHO, A is impractical - it is hard and would take to
much time and effort to do. B would force us to include components
in the baseline that are unnecessary/inappropriate/unwanted. C has
issues with /when/ a snapshot is taken, and I don't know anything
about E.
That leaves me with D - and a reliance on IPS and repositories.
Actually, that reliance goes pretty deep - we need to deal with
who can put things into the repository, who gets to modify the
composition and definition of the baseline and how it evolves.
But it gives us a starting point...
-John
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