* John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-07 10:49]: > Karyn Ritter wrote: > >I've pulled together my preliminary thoughts on the relative priorities Karyn's complete sentence was precise:
> I've pulled together my preliminary thoughts on the relative > priorities of open sourcing the other Solaris consolidations, and > would like you all to comment on the list and priorities below. > From my perspective, the priorities are > > HIGH: All the things needed to make OpenSolaris > a bootable, installable and updatable distro. Support of community members pursuing this goal is in fact reflected in the priorities in the original list. The notion of a reference distribution is a governance issue. > HIGH: Teamware AS-IS and SCCS, followed by some SCM decision. Beyond SCCS, no SCM functionality is shipped in Solaris currently by any consolidation. DevPro is a high priority consolidation as a result of its containing libm, SCCS, and other components believed to be of interest. The general SCM issues are separate from helping consolidations understand the level of interest the community might have in their source. > Once this state has been reached, the rest of the > consolidations can be ranked by simple desire; without > this stuff, the other consolidations are not very useful. I disagree with this on a number of levels but, most of all, I disagree with the implied serialization. > >OS/Networking HIGH > Isn't this already *done*? There are still components being examined, as well as a influx of new projects. > >Administrative Tools LOW > >DEVPRO HIGH > >Documentation: Open Source Solaris Man Pages HIGH > >Install: Packaging Tools HIGH > >Networking > How is this different from what is already there? This refers to the various SPARC platform network drivers not in ON. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] https://opensolaris.org:444/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
