Marco,
I couldn't agree more, because, in part, it may be my group within Sun
that's on the hook to support :)... seriously, though, I couldn't in
good conscience put forth an ARC case without a clear idea of how Sun
intends to support.
You raise an equally valid issue around major and minor releases... just
because we include Drupal 6.0 now, will we include 6.1, 6.2, etc. when
they come out? Will we make availble immediately to the Indiana
Repository, or (less optimally) wait for the next Indiana Train?
The biggest meta-issue all this raises right now, for me, is that of
commitment and support, potentially in perpetuity, from the OpenSolaris
Community and Sun Microsystems.
I'm off to get some answers...
ERR
>
> The problem is that everything `potentially internet facing' will need a very
> fast acting and organized support system. I think, the worst we can do, is
> include something, because it's easy to do, and then not committing to the
> support which would be needed.
>
> I had my wake-up moment yesterday when a missed vulnerability in one
> (non-standard) Joomla component was exploited:-(
>
> Drupal had eight releases of the 5.* release over the last year, are we
> prepared to take that load?
>
> "
> drupal-5.0.tar.gz 15-Jan-2007 08:20 729K
> drupal-5.1.tar.gz 30-Jan-2007 00:20 729K
> drupal-5.2.tar.gz 26-Jul-2007 19:25 734K
> drupal-5.3.tar.gz 17-Oct-2007 21:35 736K
> drupal-5.4.tar.gz 05-Dec-2007 21:20 736K
> drupal-5.5.tar.gz 06-Dec-2007 20:30 736K
> drupal-5.6.tar.gz 10-Jan-2008 22:20 737K
> drupal-5.7.tar.gz 29-Jan-2008 00:10 737K
> "
>
>
Eric Reid
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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