Hi,
Garrett D'Amore píše v st 07. 07. 2010 v 21:57 -0700:
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 01:20 +0200, ольга крыжановская wrote:
> > The comment was in reply to your mail to Asa about closing this case.
> > Sorry for the out of order mail.
>
> As we discussed during the meeting, Oracle declared the issue of amr a
> business matter. The bigger concern I have about the impact to the
> downstream OpenSolaris community (and the lack of a conduit back to
> Oracle for feedback from the community *other* than through ARC review)
> was deemed to be a larger issue and out of scope for this particular
> case.
>
> I'm not sure how we fix the process; I'm pretty sure nobody at Oracle
> really *wants* to fix the process. After all, it works perfectly well
> for Oracle's needs.
>
Even if Oracle is not interested in maintaining and distributing amr
driver, it is fully open sourced and community can extract it from ON
gate and move to other gate (Emancipation project?). So other distros
can distribute them easily.
And yes, it is my personal oppinion and can be different from oppinion
of Oracle.
Best regards,
Milan
> -- Garrett
>
> >
> > Olga
> >
> > 2010/7/8 ольга крыжановская <olga.kryzhanov...@gmail.com>:
> > > What about your concerns for 3rd party vendors and the community?
> > >
> > > Olga
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garr...@damore.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >> I'm a bit concerned that we may be premature in EOF'ing AMR. While
> > >> *Sun* customers probably didn't use this driver on Sun hardware, the
> > >> driver remains in the open source tree, and appears to have been sold
> > >> by Dell fairly recently.
> > >>
> > >> If Oracle wants to elide this driver from Solaris 11 or Solaris Next or
> > >> whatever, that doesn't concern me -- especially if Oracle is going to
> > >> choose to only support a subset of systems that could run potentially
> > >> run the OS.
> > >>
> > >> However, as an OpenSource product, I remain unconvinced that adequate
> > >> information about the usage of this driver has been collected. Its
> > >> *possible* that nobody ever used it, but that seems somewhat unlikely.
> > >>
> > >> As the source is open, and the driver conforms to the SCSA DDK, I would
> > >> think that the cost of sustaining on this driver would be very small
> > >> indeed.
> > >>
> > >> If we're going to EOF this driver now, then I think we wind up with a
> > >> level 0 question about support for "semi-legacy" hardware in the OS. Is
> > >> Oracle going to ditch support for all hardware that it hasn't sold? Or
> > >> hardware that customers aren't reporting problems with? How recently
> > >> sold on the market does hardware have to be to be considered viable for
> > >> OpenSolaris? 1 year? 2 years?
> > >>
> > >> How is a popularity contest on the drivers determined?
> > >>
> > >> - Garrett
> > >>
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