Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> I never said that I believed that they didn't. But it was the >> presumption of the earlier mail from someone else (Joe?) that I was >> commenting on. > That was me, prompted by the /usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin observation about > Indiana (from Alan?). > > I **strongly** believe that some things need to be reviewed pre-Preview > and this is one of them. We all know that Previews (incl. Solaris > Express) have some funny guarantees. We've had this discussion in the > Solaris Express context a couple of times already. > > Let's just forget the rules, and play what if... > > Indiana ships with the alternate gnu personality by default. > > PSARC/whoever says "NO". > > Somebody (perhaps Indiana users? perhaps other users? perhaps ???) will > be very unhappy. Expectations are being set. > > This class of expectations is the "train wreck" I was referring to - not > a general Indiana vs process issue.
Now you feel that PSARC should be involved before a preview are done, so that expectations are not raised/dashed w/o appropriate review? Should you also vet our discussions on opensolaris aliases so those would not set any expectations that would not meet w/ PSARC approval? Indiana is a prototype. Things are going to change. It's going to be different. Innovation requires experimentation. Experimentation implies both positive and negative outcomes; we aim to learn from our mistakes and share the experience with the world during development. This means that we _will_ try something that doesn't make it into the finished product for one reason or another. That's ok. It's a prototype. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
