James Carlson wrote:
Cyril Plisko writes:
On 1/9/07, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... lots of thoughtful stuff ...
I don't understand where this view that OpenSolaris
Communities don't have releases came from.
Using old Sun terms, while the OpenSolaris effort isn't
interested in taking all the code it hosts and making it
into a product, those various Consolidations certainly will
want to manage their code bases and schedule releases of
their components.
The "process change" that needs to happen is that the chartering
of releases (the Major, Minor, Micro stuff) that *was* done
by Sun Product Approval Committees (PACs) now needs to be
managed by the communities themselves. And by community, I
mean the ON Community Core for the ON releases, the Desktop
Community Core for the Desktop releases, etc, not the OGB.
(and, of course, Sun's PACs now need to decide whether they
want to use these component releases as-is, or modify them in
some way, say by adding "closed sources" or deleting "unwanted
features".)
The various Distros need to build on these various component
releases to make their products; in a very real sense, a Distro
team is exactly the same as a Sun's traditional WOS Team (aka
W-Team, P-Team...).
The alternative is unsupportable: "We built our distro on
the OpenSolaris.ON Snapshot taken from Joerg's personal
development workspace at 14:30PST on Wed Afternoon, Jan 17,
2007, as modified by Roland to have some of, but not all of
the AST component suite...".
-John
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