On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, johansen-osdev at sun.com wrote:
> Al,
>
>> The project team chose to go into ON rather than some other more
>> suitable consolidation such as SFW. ON's bar is intentionally set
>> very high -- these are the crown jewels we're talking about here. I
>> doubt you're going to get much agreement that the bar on entry to ON
>> should be lowered to allow just "any" open source code.
>>
>> I think it's Roland's cross to bear that he chose ON and is sticking
>> with it.
>
> I agree with James. Many people suggested that Roland consider
> integrating KSH93 into the SFW consolidation. SFW is specifically
> geared towards handling open-source software not directly developed as
> part of OpenSolaris. SFW has different, and more relaxed, requirements
> for project integrations. It would have been a more suitable place for
> KSH93 and it would have taken less time to integrate there.
>
> Despite the advice offered to Roland, he chose to integrate KSH93 into
> ON. The standards for ON integrations should be the same, regardless of
> who is filing the RTI. Don't blame the KSH93 reviewers, who are also
> volunteers, for a choice that the KSH93 project team made.
As the first major piece of software to be integrated into ON from an
external developer, it is *hugely* important for the success of
OpenSolaris (the project) that Roland and ksh93 be successful.
Otherwise - what message are we sending to every other potential
OpenSolaris contributor? Or more importantly - what message with
every other potential contributor *perceive*. Remember - perception
is in the eye of the beholder and may be completely disconnected from
reality.
I'm not asking for standards to be compromised or for special
treatment - I'm asking for every ON SME (Subject Matter Expert) to
ease the learning curve and pain and lower the barriers that any
external contributor will be faced with while trying to integrate,
successfully, into ON.
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. al at logical-approach.com
Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT
OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/
