John Plocher wrote:
James Carlson wrote:
John Plocher writes:
I don't understand where this view that OpenSolaris
Communities don't have releases came from.
It's a source base. What's the "release model" for a source base that
has no delivery mechanism?
There is a vast difference between "OpenSolaris" and "The ON
Community that lives under the OpenSolaris umbrella".
The former does not have a release model. The latter must.
OpenSolaris's ON Build 53 is such a release. In the lifecycle
spectrum it is still in the "develop, integrate and test new
features" phase, but at some time its core community will
decide to ease up on the new feature flow, focus on spit and
polish, and bless one of its builds as a formal release for
others to use. This does not imply that that release needs
to be a stand alone product or distro.
In a later messgae you wrote:
> Perhaps I'm just being dense about this, but something
> in there doesn't sound fully baked to me.
Some of that half-baked feeling comes from the fact that the
ON Core Community has not picked up the ball on this whole release
question and the various distros are freewheeling in the vacuum.
It cannot be up to consolidations individually, how would you then handle
cross-consolidation dependencies? (there was mention elsewhere of a
consolidation-by-consolidation approach, but I missed it then).
Yes, having all of the distributions agree to a single release
schedule for all of Open Solaris
...
seems flimsy to me. The range of activity permitted by the PACs is
quite constrained, because the type of release and thus primary
release content is set elsewhere.
Yup - in this arena, Sun is explicitly giving up that level of
control for the ON Consolidation. Of course, it is devoutly hoping
that the engineers it has who are working as part of the community
don't all suddenly take leave of their senses and start doing
Stupid Things(TM)....
And the other consolidations making up OpenSolaris, of course...
-- Rich
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