(going up for a moment)
I tend to agree with Stephen Hahn.
The first bullet in this proposal is:
>/ 1. It must allow packages to be tagged with an "expectation
/>/ level" taken from the (evolving) set of
/>/ [Sandbox, Prototype, Experimental, Preferred, Core]/
(In later revisions, this became [Expermental, Prototype, Aggregated,
Integrated]
John's reply (to Stephen):
Answer: Use the pkg tagging mechanism to identify packages that (we)
have chosen to spend the effort on integrating well into OpenSolaris.
My first question is who the parenthetical (we) in the above is. Is it
Sun? Is it the
overall OpenSolaris community? Is it the most "related" OpenSolaris
community?
(going down for a moment, because I need to hear an answer first,
otherwise it
will be hard to discuss)
Isn't there something missing in the proposed taxonomy?
Let's take the plethora of ftp implementations available. It doesn't
seem like
more than one of these (any one) could be asserted to be Aggregated. Having
more than one of these doesn't fit the "they matter a lot" phrase in
Aggregated.
Having one does "matter a lot". Having a plethora doesn't seem to
matter much.
I can't fit these other ftp implementations as "Prototype" either. They
tend to
work well and be mature - they are all just stylistic variations on the
theme.
Where do they fit?
Perhaps the idea was:
Preferred getting the new definition of Aggregated.
Aggregated means "other neat and mature stuff", just not our preference.
Maybe because I shouldn't suggest another set of levels, but I will anyway:
Integrated - as is
Preferred - as current "aggregated" is defined - they matter a
lot, but
maybe don't follow all the "big rules",...
yadda, yadda, yadda,...
Aggregated - Just as "cool and mature" as Preferred, but not
determined to
be "preferred".
Other - I just can't see a significant reason for having
more than "not
ready for primetime" bucket. (Probably not to
important.)
All in all, I think we need to examine what "matter a lot" means.
- jek3
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