Roland Mainz wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>>Is it possible to extend that to 12 months, please ? >>>Some of the larger projects may have to wait longer for their inclusion >>>into OS/Net and IMO it may be bad if the original B[1-9][1-9] build >>>tools, sources etc. go away shortly before the putback just because >>>they're slightly over the six-month barrier... >>> >>> >>I don't understand that requirement. Any project needs to be build >>against the latest bits prior to putback. So keeping exceedingly stale >>bits does not help them in anyway. >> >> > >It depends on what you are working on. People may want to remain with >their "older" version as long as possible because an "update" costs >significant time, including such "small" items like installing a machine >from scratch with a new version of OpenSolaris. Within a suiteable >environment with multiple machines (+ Jumpstart etc.) this is easy and >painless - but for contributors with less infratructure (and/or less >experience) this can take significant time, sometimes half a day, a day >or even much longer if problems with the hardware arise. > > Isn't this time well spent? Working on stale code can cause all sorts of integration problems later on.
I'm a firm believer in continuous integration, especially when several people are working on the same source. Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
