On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Jim Walker <James.Walker at sun.com> wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Yes core on ASSERT should be disabled before any product release. The > >> intention is to uncover these subtle bugs during development so that > >> they won't lead to subtle errors in the product. > > > > So that sounds like they should always be disabled in the Nevada builds > > of JDS and only enabled in the Vermilion builds, since we're making > > "products" like SXDE & Indiana out of many Nevada builds (and once the > > Indiana repos are going, basically all of them). > > I agree. The current OpenSolaris releases should be considered product > releases and desktop stability overrides uncovering minor bugs > especially when thousands of people are impacted. > > The JDS team could push out there own "beta test versions" if they want, > but the main path stuff should be product release quality all the time.
The only problem I see with this is that it reduces the ability to get good test feedback. While FCS quality all the time is a great thing to have, the OpenSolaris releases are test releases for all intents and purposes from my understanding. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
