>> In that case, solve the software package problem
>> within Project Indiana and
>> olve the trademark situation and solve the lack of a
>> driver for Adaptec
>> controllers and AMD PCNet etherent and solve real
>> problems that affect the
>> OpenSolaris project.
> [...]
> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/dev_solaris/qual_death_spiral/
>
This was from some internal document at Sun in which the context was
regarding a "product" called Solaris.
FCS quality all the time -- why is this so important?
- only way to avoid the quality death spiral:
- people hear the gate is broken
- decide not to risk a bringover
- fewer people run the latest stuff
- less real-life testing
- new bugs not found
- quality drops further
- morale tracks quality
- downward spiral hard to break
- recovery time can be very long
how are we doing?
- after a rough start, things are going well
- eliminated gatekeeper putback approval
- still no netinstall, but lots of bfu
- high volume of change, very little breakage
- several major projects (KBI, C-O-C, NFS V3, NFS/TCP, ...)
- over 300 bug fixes
- on495 already deployed on jurassic, updated weekly
- lots more good stuff on the way
Does this have any bearing on an OpenSolaris experiment ? When I install
and run snv_81 on my machine that has :
two AMD PCNet NICs
two Adaptec SCSI Controllers
one NCRS based SCSI controller
a SoundBlaster Live! card and a pile of other "stuff"
They all have drivers except for the sound. The pcn driver is a piece of
trash and it has *always* been a trashy piece of code. So no one can tell
me that it is FCS quality because it has been in the "commercial product"
all the way back to Solaris 8 x86 and maybe earlier. The SCSI works great.
The ata driver is a thing of beauty ( finally ) and I can read and burn to
both of my DVD writers.
With the OpenSolaris binary release I can not do a few things. Namely half
of my disks are gone because there is no Adaptec SCSI driver. The pcn driver
is absent and the open source ae driver ( Masayuki Murayama's ) is not in
there so I have to add that manually via a USB Thumbdrive or maybe a CDROM.
So forget using a browser or any network at all.
I have said all this before over and over ad nauseum ad ignorium :
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=51198&tstart=60
Regardless ... I'm tired of writing these sort of emails. They serve no
purpose and I am just some noisey guy on the other side of a wall talking to
himself about things he wished that he could fix.
I am going to go do useful work at blastwave.org and actually release
software to the Solaris user base. That always makes me feel more like a
participant in the Solaris community as opposed to an observer.
Dennis Clarke
ps: and I have really tried to work with IPS also but a lot of work is
required to make that fly. Feel free to ask.
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