On Aug 21, 2008 09:59 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > <rant> > I'm going to be an open source curmudgeon for a minute and say that if > Sun/CFS wants to track customer-specific, sensitive data bugs, they need > to have a separate system and pay someone to make sure that all internal > bugs are santized and put into the open source project bug tracker. > > Sun/CFS gets a huge mindshare and market acceptance benefit from the > open source project. Hiding bugs WILL kill that mindshare and > acceptance benefit. If Lustre isn't a full first class public open > source project, all the new and really innovative work will get done > on competing open source filesystems.
<anti-rant> Note that bugs the Lustre group files are public. The privacy is only a choice of the customer. This was true when we were CFS, and in fact a lot MORE of the CFS bugs were private because we had to worry more about keeping our plans/designs closely guarded as a form of financial security. Since being part of Sun the Lustre designs and design discussions are available to the public (e.g. lustre-devel, wiki, public bugs for feature development, and internal debugging discussions, etc). In truth, it hasn't made a huge difference in external contributions to code or design, because the barrier is more to do with complexity than with being able to just read the document. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
