Sounds like a good proposal. Thanks!
On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Dave Miner wrote: > Caimaniacs, > > We've been requested by several key users to provide a > straightforward communication channel for interface changes to the > various installers, though especially AI, so that those users, > including test teams, can adjust their procedures as needed and keep > the train running on time. Experience during the 2009.06 development > cycle indicates that the prior suggestion to monitor this list for > heads-up notices became a needle-in-a-haystack exercise, hence the > request for us to apply some filtering and interpretation (and > simple archiving) to assist them. > > After examining the problem and available channels, I'm proposing to > establish a flag day/heads up page on wikis.sun.com. This would be > a single page, organized by build (somewhat in the manner of the ON > flag day page[1]), wherein we would collect information on user- > visible changes to the installers as they are integrated to the > source tree. Why wikis.sun.com? > > 1. It's available to both the internal and external communities, > both of whom have made requests for this sort of information. > 2. It offers users the ability to "watch" pages, obtaining "push" > notification of updates to this page, which is not offered by the > opensolaris.org web site implementation. The future implementation > based on XWiki offers a similar watch capability, but this channel > needs to be in place now to support the ongoing ramp of test > activity based on OpenSolaris builds. > > I anticipate the following effects on the project developers: > > 1. The gatekeeper (Clay, at present) would add organization of this > page to his duties. This essentially becomes an exercise of > demarcating the builds in the page. > 2. Individual developers continue to be responsible for creating > heads-up/flag day documentation for their integrations, and must now > post it to the new wiki page. > 3. Individual developers continue to send flag day/heads-up mail to > this list, though these can become largely pointers to the wiki page. > > Questions and comments on this proposal are requested by COB > Wednesday, July 29. > > Dave > > [1]http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/116-120/ > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
