Glenn Skinner wrote: > Glenn Skinner wrote: > > Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:19:44 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> > > Subject: ksh93 Integration Update 1 Amendments 1 [PSARC/2008/344 > > FastTrack timeout 06/03/2008] > > > > ... > > ## Part 1.1: Update of ksh93 > > The 1.1 portion of this project is the update of ksh93 from > > ast-ksh.2007-12-15 to ast-ksh-2008-05-22 which marks the update > > from ksh93 version 's+' to version 't-' (AST/ksh93 uses the > > (latin) alphabet for its version number, e.g. version 'a', > > version 'b' etc. ; the '+'/'-' means the stabilty status, e.g. > > '-' means its "alpha", no suffix means its "stable" (e.g. ready > > for production usage) and '+' means its a bugfixed stable version > > etc.). > > > > Are we to infer from this nomenclature description that ksh's > > stability level is decreasing as part of this case? > > I read it as "we don't integrate '-' versions into Solaris". Did > I guess right? > > That's my underlying concern. Lower quality and higher probability of > exposed bugs would seem to imply higher risk that we can't meet the > guarantees implied by the (ARC taxonomy) stability level we've > assigned to ksh93.
As said in http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2008-May/006127.html - we don't want to change the ARC stabilty level. We just wanted to point out that we grab a newer version of the ksh93 upstream sources with more changes than appropriate for a "stable branch" codebase (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2008-May/006127.html explains why we did that). > If the project team wishes to retain the existing stability > classification, that's their prerogative; they'll have chosen to > assume the risk of violating the stability classification's guarantees > (and presumably will have a strategy for mitigating the risk). Erm... what does that mean ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
