James Carlson wrote: > But when the upstream really is sensible, and doesn't deliberately break > their own software (or, as in many cases, isn't actively doing any work > anymore), then applying "Volatile" (or "External") to the interface > merely as a way to say "this wasn't written by one of the good guys at > Sun" is deeply wrong, and needs to be corrected. > > Just because some software isn't maintained at Sun isn't a good reason > to malign it as "Volatile." You need better justification than that.
And as long as you continue to equate "Volatile" with "baldly stupid", "unpredictable", or "malign", every FOSS project trying to integrate in OpenSolaris will pointlessly try to assign a higher stability classification than it should in the first place, for the simple reason that they do not want to integrate something described by PSARC as "baldly stupid", "unpredictable" or "malign". We've been there many times before, and some of us still haven't learned the lesson. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. stefan.teleman at Sun.COM
