Stephen Hahn wrote:
I recently wrote a bit about the restricted integration builds we had
during December at
http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/opensolaris_restricted_builds_through_the
One of the aspects I believe we need to settle on is an initial
frequency for such restrictions. I've talked with at least one of
the non-Sun distributions on this topic, and with some of the Solaris
Nevada people as well, but a bit more discussion is needed. (I can
write a further essay on the merits/problems with restricted builds,
if that would help.) Looking at past releases, distribution releases
(across the various OpenSolaris derived distributions), and
hypothesizing about the needs of organizations choosing to build atop
the OpenSolaris code, my initial suggestion is that we have a one or
two build restricted integration period every three months. That
means, roughly 5 - 6 open builds followed by 1 - 2 restricted ones.
Thoughts?
I think that could work, however, how would things look up on the lead-in to
a Solaris release? (the 6-ish months of various restrictions leading up to
10, and the 2.5-ish leading up to 9).
I'm aware that on+2 tends to appear somewhat before on+1 is finished (at
least, I recall the old comments opengrok used to show, showing merges from
on10 into onnv, for a what seemed like a fairly reasonable period).
I think this needs to be thought about with an eye to the various
constraints. Off the top of my head:
- Sun need a longer period of stabilization prior to a release.
- At least some people outside of Sun will probably not want that to hold up
their development in general.
- the various source trees need to precisely match their equivalent 'used to
build Solaris' trees at all times, at least for the foreseeable future.
does on+2 appear far enough before on+1 is done that none of these will be
problematic? could it? (though I accept it would probably be rather quiet
until on+1 was done).
In other words, to take the 6 month-ish period of restrictions at the end of
on10, when in that period did onnv appear? When could we expect it to
appear for nevada++?
Do people care enough about the light restriction for a 10-like cycle to
actually be a problem in that way at all?
The above is all assuming that onnv and onnv+1 will be visible to us
concurrently (and similar for onnv-patch/on11-patch, probably).
-- Rich
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