Joerg Schilling wrote: > Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > >> Hi J?rg, >> >> Hrm, I did unsubscribe from request-sponsor when I left Sun, so perhaps >> I didn't see your sponsorship request. Can you point me to the email >> where you requested a sponsor to integrate your changes in? >> >> Or are you integrating into an already open consolidation like SFW? >> > > It seems that you are missunderstaning the problem. > I don't believe I am. > The star integration project started long before this mail address exists and > it was not possible to find a sponsor after Dworkin Muller left Sun. > Correction: it was not possible to find a sponsor after Dworkin Muller left Sun... until OpenSolaris launched, and the request-sponsor route became an open and public way for people to get sponsors. > I did never send a mail to this (new) address because it is unlikely that > there > will be a sponsor as long as some people prefer to spend 100+ times the effort > on sending mail that tries to prevent the integration than I expect the > integration to take. > How do you know this if you haven't requested a sponsor? I see quite a few notable requests that have integrated far more contentious code (ksh93) than star that have gone in successfully.
Your statement above is purely speculative as you have no idea what people prefer or prefer not to do since you haven't asked them. > Let me add some technical background to also show that there is a lot of > confusion inside Sun. Lately people propose to put star into sfw but sfw has > an > unclear makefilesystem and after the integration, ufsdump/ufsrestore will > depend on compilation results from the star consolidation. For this reason, > it > seems that star rather belongs into ON.... > I don't think SFW has an unclear Makefilesystem - in fact, it derives heavily from the same system as ON (the only exception being the install-sfw scripts). If you understand ON, surely you can grok something considerably simpler like SFW. You're a smart guy J?rg, smarter than I am - and even I could figure out SFW. But that aside, if ufsdump/ufsrestore need to depend on star, then you need to go through the same ARC and sponsor process as everyone else. And that all starts with a simple email to request-sponsor. cheers, steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
