Sebastien Roy wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 23:51 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 02:43:19PM -0700, Rao Shoaib wrote: >> >>> Jim, >>> >>> I have been told that we can ask ISC to maintain backward compatibility >>> for documented interfaces. So we would like to change the classification >>> of all the documented interfaces to Committed. >>> >> Have ISC agreed to do this? If not, I feel that the change is somewhat >> premature. >> > > The most important part isn't what ISC agrees to do, but what the > project team is willing to guarantee to consumers of the interface. If > these are Committed interfaces, then the project team and the entity > that delivers the OS need to treat them as such. This means that if the > upstream source changes in a way that is counter to that classification, > then something must be done to maintain backward compatibility beyond > just sucking the upstream sources unmodified. That has been done > before... >
Sun has a contract with ISC and Stacey maintains that relationship. I made changes to interface stability level after Stacey told me that Sun would have a case with ISC if documented interfaces were changed in an incompatible way. I have copied Stacey in case further clarification is needed. Rao. > -Seb > >
