Mike Kupfer wrote:
Right. Another possible approach is to have a single OpenSolaris gate
(well, one per consolidation). Each distro would create its own stable
branch when it gets close to a release. (That branch could still be
visible, but it would be run by the distro, not by the community.)
I thank that is the only fair way. Otherwise smaller distro's voices
won't get to impact the restriction periods as as easily as bigger ones.
If OpenSolaris has releases, then in addition to the transition issues
(from one release to the next), we also need to figure out how older
releases are managed and eventually retired.
Since OpenSolaris isn't a product but the community and the source I
don't see how it can have releases.
Do any of the distros besides Solaris plan to issue patches for old
releases? If they do, then there's some benefit in having a common
source base, though I can imagine policy conflicts over what's worth
patching.
In answering this we should not confuse the patching technology with the
concept of delivering fixes for older releases.
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Darren J Moffat
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