>> If the ksh93 program has good interface documentation already, then >> going through a review process should be easy enough. If not, then >> those people interested in bringing it into OpenSolaris may have some >> footwork to do to meet documentation requirements.
Joerg> Your remarks are nice but they don't apply to OpenSolaris. Why not? Certainly OpenSolaris is not going to accept any random bit of stuff that someone wants to contribute. Some sort of review process is needed, even for things that the community thinks are critical. It's true that the review process for OpenSolaris is not yet well-defined. John Beck and folks are working on a proposal for that. In the mean time, we can follow the same basic approach that we've already used to take in fixes from the OpenSolaris community. Someone signs up to do the engineering work, and someone from Sun signs up to sponsor the work and help the first person get through the existing Sun review processes. Joerg> If you like to discuss compatibility, you need to discuss whether Joerg> it is worse to have incompatibilities between current Sun Solaris Joerg> distributions and old one or whether is is worse when Sun Solaris Joerg> differs from other OpenSolaris based distributions that are Joerg> derived from the same OpenSolaris release. I don't see why this is an either/or situation. That is, I think we can have compatibility with older Solaris releases, and we can have compatibility with the other OpenSolaris distros. But it will take some time and engineering work to get there. mike _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
