On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:10:33PM -0700, Alexander Kolbasov wrote: > There is one important piece of functionality that Sun engineers use a lot and > that is completely missing in the current OpenSolaris infrastructure is the > mapping between the code and specific bugs. This information is kept in the > SCCS > history and thus unavailable for anyone outside of Sun. I think that in the > long > term we should find ways to answer the basic question: "why was a specific > piece > of code introduced?". I don't know how this can be achieved technically, but > we > should start thinking about solving this in the long term, at least for new > things added where we can keep public deltas.
Technically this is trivial. Legally it's problematic, and as usual the lawyers won't give us rules we can use to apply to the histories[0]. The initial plan is to get just the last 5 years worth of delta comments out, to provide the mapping between the bugs fixed and the files. Of course, that's not really enough but it's impractical to do the work needed to make the entire history available with complete deltas. [0] I've decided that the set of rules which can be applied or enforced by machines and the set which is acceptable to lawyers are disjoint. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
