James Carlson wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith writes:
>
>> 4) Package Request-to-Integrate - a simple text form submitted to the WOS
>> RE when a new package is added to the OS telling them the information
>> they need to know to set the right properties in the installer/image
>> (Does it need to be in the miniroot? End User or Developer install?
>> Does it replace an existing package? etc.) Since this is a text form
>> submitted via e-mail, it could be easily published on opensolaris.org.
>>
>
> I agree with much of the rest of what you wrote, but I'm not sure I
> understand this part.
>
> Given that the WOS is the process that constructs Sun's "SX"
> distribution, why would package RTIs be open? Wouldn't each
> OpenSolaris-based distributor have its own WOS assembly process?
>
Internally, Sun is going to have to define a process for taking external
components and integrating them into its distro. Right now Package RTI
fills that need. It isn't clear to me that such will work going
forward, because the package RTI process assumes that the person
committing the code in the first place has the ability to request
integration into WOS. Going forward, that won't hold true for the
community. But this is a Sun problem, and not an OpenSolaris problem.
-- Garrett
