On Fri, 8 May 2009, Mike Kupfer wrote: > I've updated http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/known_issues/ > slightly. In particular, I removed the line about the minimum build > that you need to have on your build machine, as it was stale and would > almost certainly get out-of-date again. I also tweaked the wording of > items 5 (bfu) and 6 (Zones). > > If you have any concerns about the changes, please let me know. > > Also, I'm wondering if this page has outlived its usefulness. It > started out as a section in the release notes that we distributed with > the biweekly builds back in 2005. And it's still included in the README > that gets included in the ON source tarballs. But all the issues that > are currently noted were also listed as issues back in 2005. So they're > clearly not acute problems. And we have other ways to notify people of > issues, such as the Flag Days page and the on-discuss mailing list. > Should the page go away? Is there information on it that's worth > keeping somewhere else?
Hi Mike - I didn't know such a page existed and had asked about one before (obviously in the wrong forum). I love the idea of the page - you know, with things like: "no, it's not you, changeset XXYY has caused lint errors and it is being worked on" but, how likely are we to keep it current? I think someone on the "gateeper" alias would need to own it to keep it current - in which case it could be a very good reference. I can't tell you how many people spend hours (or days) trying to figure out a build problem before tehy ask for help, when it was a "known issue" all along... Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
