> Seriously, what is this? Another attempt to sabotage > or stall the > project? I'm seriously getting fed up with > Sun^H^H^HOracle's constant > bantering and slowness related to this project. > They've been dozens of > commits in onnv-notify in the last weeks and I don't > understand why > this project should be the only one affected. >
While I don't know anything you don't, it wouldn't be at all unusual to freeze everything other than fairly serious bug fixes if trying to get something out the door like, say, OpenSolaris 2010.xx. I think something similar has happened in the past on some occasions. The only thing new is that Oracle seems to have a policy of requiring approval by a near-deity to talk about anything that's not already been released. That they haven't realized that they need to talk when it affects ongoing open-source collaboration is...unfortunate. Someone needs to tell them that they're wasting the time of people that are effectively donating free labor to them (or actually, to the community, but the result benefits them as much as anybody). To give them some benefit of the doubt, they're big, they're not used to working on projects that are under such pressure to be open, and big organizations usually learn very slowly... As someone else already quoted, "never attribute to malice that which may be explained by incompetence" (or organizational inertia, which often has the same effect as incompetence). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ ksh93-integration-discuss mailing list ksh93-integration-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ksh93-integration-discuss
