Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:50:33PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> I'm not saying ports are bad, just that I don't see the port to System/Z as
>> particularly crucial and requiring the OGB to escalate to Oracle that of all
>> the problems OpenSolaris has, this is one of the most pressing for them to
>> apply funding to solve - there's a lot more things that would be far more
>> useful to apply resources to fixing than ports to mainframe hardware.
>
> That's true, although it was sad to see bug 6414867, "Revive UltraSPARC I
> support" closed earlier today due to "no funding".
>
> If Oracle don't even want these things tracked in their bug tracker then
> they'll never get done.
Don't read too much into it. When I was at Sun, we had on-going battles
over whether RFEs without committed resources should be left open. Some
groups wanted them to stay open so that the bug database would
accurately reflect the state of the world ("feature requested, not yet
implemented"), while others wanted to close them all out lest someone
get false hope ("look! there's a CR! maybe it's being worked on!") or
otherwise think that the listed Responsible Manager was somehow on the
hook for it.
I do think that valid RFEs ought to stay open regardless of resources,
and Bugster does have appropriate ways of marking them as "no
resources," but that's certainly not the only practice among the many
and quite varied groups that make up Sun's engineering team.
In other words, don't think of that closure as meaning anything other
than that one Sun engineer (or perhaps manager) decided that he didn't
think it was going to be worked on, so he just closed it. If someone
actually does work on it, it can obviously be reopened or filed anew.
It's annoying to see this done, but not more than an annoyance.
The bug database is just paperwork. The real issue is the code and the
support required to keep that code running. If *that* doesn't
materialize, then no amount of open RFEs are going to help you. If the
real work is done, then lack of the open RFE is no real hindrance.
Concentrate on the work, not the paper.
(Personally, given the age of the hardware and the availability of
better systems, I wouldn't bother with UltraSPARC I. The returns are
just too small. But I guess that's just me.)
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James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
