John Plocher wrote: > > I don't believe we *want* to bloat our existing source trees > with hundreds or thousands of harvested FOSS projects like these.
Well the consolidation model (all source in one tree) clearly cannot work as I've been pointing out for a good while, so alternatives will arise from the inevitability. http://blogs.sun.com/jyrivirkki/entry/unconsolidating > They don't belong there simply because we (the community) aren't > the right people to claim that implied level of ownership. We > aren't forking these projects; we aren't rewriting them to be > part of the (open)solaris ABI, we are only trying to make them > available to our consumers without adding much incremental cost > and without changing them. > > The corollary of the above is that because we don't have any > intent to make these things part of (Open)Solaris, the rules > associated with making things part of (Open)Solaris are suspect. "part of" is fuzzy here, not precise enough to form policy on. Is the package I get when I do 'apt-get install guile-1.8' "part of" debian? If guile lives in pkg.opensolaris.org it's part of OpenSolaris, though not in the way you meant. Just as you can't throw any random package into the official debian repository if it doesn't comply with their guidelines, it shouldn't be possible to do so into the official OpenSolaris repository(ies?) either. Doing so would be chaos. From this it follows: 1. rules/guidelines must exist 2. packages must be reviewed to comply with them prior to inclusion -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
