James Carlson wrote:
You've got me. I've pointed out the seeming inconsistency before on
other threads, but John Plocher seems to think that it's not a
problem.
Uhmmm...
I believe it is Stephen Hahn who is driving this "OS.o isn't a
distro, doesn't do releases and is somehow not connected to Sun's
release processes or definitions" discussion, not me.
I believe I've pointed out this problem as well - that OS.o's
OS/Net community needs to charter consolidations, have C-Team(s),
do releases, and develop a release process that works with the
community and its distros. If I gave the impression that
it is not a problem, I screwed up - sorry.
The traditional Solaris release process is a good fit for
this open source community - heck, it is effectively the /same/
process that is used by GNOME, KDE, Mozilla and Linux
o Charter a consolidation under the release taxonomy structure
of major, minor, micro intent,
o Manage it with gatekeepers and a C-Team (cough, I mean Community),
o Generate predictable releases that can be used by any distro.
Note that, at least for the minor release binding typically used in
Solaris, it doesn't matter. All that other distributions need to do
is pick a point in time, start a branch, and they're good to go.
Everything that went in up to that point is already known to have a
proper release binding, and it doesn't have to match when Sun pulled a
branch.
While having bi-weekly releases may be fine for all of us developers
as we do the initial development of all of our distros, I believe
there is great value in having cross-community alignment at a more formal
release level. And the only entitiy that can produce such release
baseline points is the OS.o OS/Net community - which really does not
exist outside of Sun today.
Having Nexenta, Schillix, BeliniX and Solaris distros all based on
a OS.O OS/Netv5.11 release means that ISVs, Blastwaves and other
application providers can all take advantage of a common baseline;
users could choose between the various distros (or, more exactly,
versions of each of the distros) confident that they are all based
on a similar set of OS features.
My guess is that we'll eventually need community-level decisions on
when major releases are needed and will have to deal with the gate
issues at that time.
+1 !
-John
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