Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
>> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>>
>>> Glenn Skinner wrote:
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>> ## 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?
>>>
>>
>> Grumpf... IMO it depends what the '-' means - see
>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2008-May/006127.html
>>
>>
>> for the testing we do right now for ksh93...
>>
>
>
> Testing isn't the issue.
>
> By assigning the '-' suffix the community is asserting "not ready for
> prime time". We should believe them and not consider integration into
> the OpenSolaris trunk. This seems very obvious to me. I would guess
> that the community wouldn't flinch about changing an interface which
> first appeared in a '-' release. Seems the reason for having such
> releases.
>
> Perhaps this is a C-team issue, more than an ARC issue, but
> regardless, such integrations should not occur.
+1. If the upstream sources believe their stuff is stable enough for
everyone to use, then one would expect that they'd indicate this using
their typical release nomenclature.
It may be helpful for persons observing this, as well as the project
team, to understand that Solaris integrations always need to conform to
a "release ready" rule. That is, we don't integrate software that
aren't comfortable including in a full release, as that software exists
*at the time of integration*.
-- Garrett
