Darren J Moffat wrote:
Cyril Plisko wrote:
That is actually an excellent point, Darren. While SXCR happens to be
one of the four publicly existing distributions based on OpenSolaris
it is a special one. And the reason for it being such is that one
need to install it to be able to build OpenSolaris itself. So falling
behind OpenSolaris is a bad practice. Really bad practice. As long as
OpenSolaris tightly coupled with SXCR they should go out in sync,
especially when flag day is called.
I thought at least SchilliX was self hosting now ?
As I said SchilliX may or may not be self hosted, but it doesn't
matter as long as opensolaris.org clearly states that it is
SXCR b32 that is needed to build OpenSolaris
What would you guys rather in this case, at SXCR be later an
you were told how to deal with the flag day or that the source
was held back ? [ no need to answer I know what the answer is ].
I think that we are getting pulled in wrong direction here -
the point is yes, glitches can happen,
whether they are in the legal realm or technical realm or just the key
guy/gal getting married and being out of keyboard. The idea is to
communicate the status to the community clearly and _in_time_.
Then people will be much more happier even if builds are falling behind
and things do not work. Otherwise it is not a community project.
I think the fundamental differentiator between open source project
and closed source project is the _open_ communication style and
readiness to discuss problems. Holding your cards to your chest
is for some other game. And its name is NOT OpenSolaris.
Regards,
Cyril
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