>>>>> "Jim" == James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Jim> The odd thing about that is that the distributors are actually in
Jim> control of when and how the releases themselves are generated --
Jim> they're the ones who type 'make' somewhere and ship the resulting
Jim> bits.  The Open Solaris community itself doesn't do that part.

Jim> So, we have one central group defining the type of release that the
Jim> source itself represents, but multiple groups independently
Jim> attempting to schedule their own releases with their own content.

Jim> Perhaps I'm just being dense about this, but something in there
Jim> doesn't sound fully baked to me.

I'm wondering if it would be helpful to think of this in terms of what
Novell and Red Hat do today.  They pull together a dizzying list of
components (the Linux kernel, GNU binutils, GNU fileutils, GNOME,
Firefox, ...)  into an installable release.  But the individual
components decide their release schedule and content, not Novell or Red
Hat.

mike
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