W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> The OS2010.03 LiveCD is supposed to be released in 03, 2010. As such, the
> "final" RC should be out by the end of February (& based on the previous
> releases, the "official" release will be binary-identical to the final RC).
>
> However, based on what I read and from my own experiences (it won't even boot
> on several of my machines), build_131 is not even an alpha quality. I don't
> know if any entity can transform a distro, as complicated as Solaris, from a
> pre-alpha to a ready-to-ship shape in just over a month, especially now that
> the air is so thick with turmoil and uncertainties?
>
> My biggest concern is, if OS2010.03 does not dramatically improve its
> acceptance/acceptability over previous releases, it will very likely go the
> way of SXCE.
>
> Or perhaps this matter has already been decided?
The current plan is for 2010.03 to be based on build 134. Builds 133 & 134 are
bug-fix-only builds to try to improve the stability and fix the critical bugs
for 2010.03 - any decision about slipping the release because the quality isn't
good enough would likely not be made until we see how many of the open high
priority bugs are not fixed by that cutoff point, which won't be until
mid-February. (The release is currently planned for end of March release, with
release candidates coming out in March, not February.)
> After the OS2008.11 release, I sent several disks to a former colleague from
> my Exxon days who is now a professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in
> China (上海交通大学). Several months later, he returned with the comment that none
> of his students would be interested, because it does not have "QQ". I posted
> an RFE bug report, no reply was received. At that time, I thought it was too
> late to push for its inclusion in OS0906 (as if my effort would have made any
> difference). Again, it is probably too late to talk about it now, but
> considering all the problems that we are still having, why should I even
> bother?
The only bug report I find was closed by one of the pidgin maintainers from
Sun's Beijing office as not possible since the QQ network owners don't allow
third-party clients:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7767
If that's not correct, you'll need to update the bug or take the discussion
up on desktop-discuss with the people who work on pidgin.
We are well past feature freeze now for 2010.03 - adding more features would
work against the goal of stabilizing the release and improving quality.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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