On 04/21/10 02:17 PM, Torrey McMahon wrote:
On 4/21/2010 3:07 PM, Norm Jacobs wrote:
You should be looking at each of these cases on the merit of it's
architectural significance to Solaris. The intention of this case
and similiar cases is to remove interfaces from the Solaris
architecture that don't address a specific architectural need or
where it might make sense to address a user requirement outside of
the Solaris architecture. The fact that they are being added to
/contrib should have little or no bearing on any recommendation you
make.
Was there a recent decision made regarding the "familiarity cases" of
the last few years? I thought the idea of adding a lot of the FOSS
code to Solaris, either core or sfw or contrib, was a goal in of it's
self. Even if it wasn't required to solve a specific architectural
problem. (sudo v rbac being one example.)
The initial intention of the familiarity cases was lost in the fervor
early on. Simply being an open source package should not have been
sufficient cause to integrate in the WOS. Within the SFW consolidation,
we are trying to rectify that by evaluating the SFW consolidation
contents and identifying which components seem to make sense to retain
in the WOS for architectural or other reasons and which make more sense
to remove from the WOS.
-Norm
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