On Dec 5, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Mike.Sullivan at sun.com wrote:

>> From sfwnv-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org Fri Dec  5 11:44:00 2008
>
>>> What does all this have to do with "code review?" Porting LaTeX is  
>>> out
>>> of the scope for this project. We are trying to do the right thing  
>>> here
>>> by trying to integrate a highly useful FOSS piece into OpenSolaris.
>>> Piling on requirements like these are only going to delay or stop  
>>> the
>>> project altogether. Are you sure that's what want?
>>
>> I'm 100% with Anup here.  There is no chance what so ever that this
>> group will port latex just beause the pyOpenSSL docs are in tex  
>> format.
>>
>> If the SFW C-Team requires this I will go as high up the management
>> chain as I need to to get it overruled.
>
> ok. Though you probably should ask them first if it's a requirement,
> before you threaten as I don't believe I've heard it being one.

Well, it seemed like Jim was speaking more on behalf of the C-team in  
this case. I am still at a loss as to what this particular issue he  
raised had to do with "code" review.

> Certainly compiling code is. For docs I don't remember even being
> asked that. I'd hope the projects would look at the docs and what
> they need and decide whether the precreated docs are fine or they
> need to generate them. Certainly I'd never tell anyone to go port
> some form of TeX, I think I'd risk not being able to patch  
> documentation
> easily.

Cool. Thanks for clarifying, Mike. This project is due for a C-team  
review next week and we can clarify anything else regarding this at  
that time.

Anup

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