James Gates wrote:
> This is part of the effort to integrate that huge list of FOSS into Open
> Solaris managed by Kelly Nishimura (See [1] & [2]). RPE was given a
> section of the list, and Venky volunteered (along with other RPE
> engineers) to perform the integration. I don't think he has any
> particular affiliation with the product or community, and there is no
> "project team" as such. So I don't know if anyone ever intended (or has
> the time) to work with the community on such things as IPv6 support.
This is straying into internal Sun management issues that don't really belong
on lsarc-ext, but the message from management I've heard has clearly been that
by accepting items from that list you are accepting long term maintenance and
the responsibility of working with the community on enhancements like this.
Just dropping it in "as is" and never doing anything more with it is not
acceptable - you've signed up to own it, not just do a one time integration.
Having been the person who worked with X.Org & XFree86 about 5 years ago
to add IPv6 support, my experience is the opposite of your original assertion,
those communities, and most others I've seen, are very willing to accept IPv6
enhancements and encouraging of them. Most open source projects had IPv6
support before their commercial brethren. Especially when using the common
IPv6 socket APIs, so that changes work equally well on Solaris, Linux & BSD,
there is little to lose for them.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
