On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:02:36PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
> > The root of this problem is that you are making a downstream
> > derivative of the OpenSolaris work, and so are doomed to forever
> > maintaining your fork.
> >
> > (You are not alone in this area. Any distro producer - including
> > Sun - that is a consumer of other people's software is in the same
> > boat.)
> >
> > The solution is to get your new features integrated back into
> > the upstream source (OpenSolaris) so that the docs and code
> > are already in sync when you get them.
>
> This is just a repeating problem....
>
> Most of the userspace programs from Solaris are close to unmaintained these
> days.
>
> If I make bug-fixes and enhancements for Sun software, I try to inform people
> about what I did and I give the permission to use it but I don't have the time
> to run after an "upstream" integration. If Sun is not interested in these
> enhancements, it is a Sun problem.
You could at least raise a CR pointing out that there are changes to
integrate and where to get them. Expecting Sun to follow your
derivative is too much.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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