>>> I guess the obvious question with all the good bits form OpenSolaris >>> trickling into Solaris 10 updates, will there ever be another release? >> >> The changes into S10 updates are generally relatively small, except >> for newboot (as it's an in-your-face change). >> >> ZFS is not a big change in the sense it is avoidable. > >It does rather beg the question of what expectations we're building from >a customer point of view with the update releases - clearly they're not >just bug fixes anymore. And with the possibility, as Glenn mentioned, of >Solaris 11 not being available until 2008/2010 are we going to expect >more things [like an updated GNOME, BrandZ, ...] be pushed back into an >Update release?
Update releases haven't been "just patches" for many years; many new features were introduced that way. However, it will be increasingly hard to backport as the release progresses and diverges more from S10. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
