Lukas Rovensky schrieb:
So, I read all the e-mails on this -- thanks for interesting discussion.
Here are a few more comments from me:
1) I got an approval from SFW c-team to move pwgen from SFW to /contrib
*prior* submitting this PSARC case. So, I will go back again to the
c-team for and advice how to proceed / not proceed further -- there is
quite a lot feedback to bring up.
If the c-team has a larger plan for what they want to move out or not,
it would be a good idea that they have someone submit an umbrella case.
2) When pwgen was integrated to SFW it really was not a promotion from
/contrib.
No, but it probably was part of the large swarm of little FOSS projects
that were all submitted for integration into Solaris (apparently without
much thought for whether they really need to be a part of the platform.)
3) Based on my experience with sustaining FOSS I believe that we need to
have many FOSS packages *for* Solaris rather than *as part of* Solaris.
A strategy around this should be discussed on some other e-mail thread
than this one.
Right. Apparently this discussion was triggered here, because some
people feel that pwgen is an example of a FOSS project that would be
useful as part of the platform, because you can use it as building block
for other projects. Those projects might be tempted to reinvent the
functionality - probably less secure - if this tool isn't there (and for
now /contrib 'isn't there' as far as Solaris architecture is concerned.
The discussion whether we try to make that distinction and where we want
to draw the line should happen first, so that proposals like this one
don't have to rehash that same discussion.
Yes, that would be a different case. But this case depends on it.
- Jörg
On 6/8/10 7:48 PM, Lukas Rovensky wrote:
Hi Suha & all,
I apologize but I am on vacation tomorrow (till end of this week). A
call would work for me sometime the next week.
I understand the concerns about some "bigger plans".
If I have time I will try to provide some more comments later today (err
night my time). However, the main point (at least for me) is as the
following -- anything in SFW is supported at some level. Utility like
pwgen does not require any real maintenance but if it is in /contrib
repository then the boundary between "supported" and "unsupported" is
set clearly. Anything in /contrib is "unsupported".
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