John Plocher <john.plocher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, stability is important, but it is not the only thing that
> matters. Under your words, I hear "everything will be OK if we can
> achieve interface stability; if we can't, all we can do is punt" (and,
> yes, I am taking your statements to an unwarranted extreme :-)
>
> I think we need to admit up front that the traditional Sun Interface
> Taxonomy simply does not work for most "pass it on" FOSS projects -
> the only pragmatic answer to "what does this project team promise to
> commit to" is "nothing", because no matter what the past track record
> is from the upstream provider, they have no choice but to follow their
> lead going forward.
It would be important for Sun to understand that ARC decisions from the past
have been made to be in conflict with stable FOSS interfaces.
The most obvious solution for this problem is to extablish more collaboration
with the community.
J?rg
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