* John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-09 10:11]:
> James Carlson wrote:
> >Cyril Plisko writes:
> >>On 1/9/07, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > ... lots of thoughtful stuff ...
> 
> I don't understand where this view that OpenSolaris
> Communities don't have releases came from.
> 
> Using old Sun terms, while the OpenSolaris effort isn't
> interested in taking all the code it hosts and making it
> into a product, those various Consolidations certainly will
> want to manage their code bases and schedule releases of
> their components.
> 
> The "process change" that needs to happen is that the chartering
> of releases (the Major, Minor, Micro stuff) that *was* done
> by Sun Product Approval Committees (PACs) now needs to be
> managed by the communities themselves.  And by community, I
> mean the ON Community Core for the ON releases, the Desktop
> Community Core for the Desktop releases, etc, not the OGB.

  +1.

  The authority to identify a release species and manage integrations
  moves from internal Sun committees to the Community Group that is
  publishing a Consolidation.  (The role of the Governing Board in
  coordinating among Community Groups is still to be determined.)
  The engineering process wasn't discarded in this transition.

  - Stephen

-- 
Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
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