Stephen Harpster wrote:
I'm the first to agree that the transition to Mercurial, getting the
source outside Sun's firewall, is going slower than I want. And now
there are problems with the automounter. Sigh.
It's not that we don't want to fix this. There are just a lot of
technical issues. The best thing you can do is to help out. Go check
out the Tools community and help! Folks there are working very hard,
but more hands won't hurt.
I'm sorry, but as I said in my reply to Darren, these are distinct problems.
Of the things pointed out below, none of them relate to the SCM
implementation, or work on tools that *we* can actually do.
The bug system, the RTI system, and more Sun engineers talking on the
opensolaris lists seem to be what are hinted toward, nothing that can be
done in or by the Tools community can change any of those 3 things.
-- Rich
S Destika wrote:
[b]Do not reply to me, I read the forums - my email address is invalid
and I do feel bad I did nothing to fix it. [/b]
It was as easy to predict more than a year ago as it is today. In one
of my posts I expressed the below (Oct 11, 2005) for which I got
flamed more than once -
<Quote>
Let Sun create a workable, scalable development model around
(Open)Solaris first. I pity the words "request" "sponsor" "ask" above.
It's going in the same direction as OpenOffice.org - it's working but
only with Sun employees doing the major heavy lifting, community
presence is not that big and thus the whole thing doesn't scale upto
the point where it should ideally...
</Quote>
I feel sad that more than a year later OpenSolaris development is
still closed, bug reports are still vague at the best and for the
people to contribute they have to make sure they don't kill their urge
and enthusiasm before they can get a change or two in.
As a result, people don't feel like caring for OpenSolaris, if they
do, Sun makes sure they go away by doing so much red taping, and the
closed development model (no design/implementation discussions, no
crisp, flaming hot discussions about how some part of code sucks and
how it could be made to not suck etc.) means people do not whet their
appetite and gather virtually no interest in the internals of
OpenSolaris.
Classic example of how not to run an open source project.
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