--- Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Mahan wrote: > > What I mean was > > --Works in x86 32bit but not in 64bit, and not in Sparc > > You broke my laptop it runs 64 bit and you broke my NFS server it > is > SPARC. > > In specific cases this one might actually be okay if it is > functionality > that only applies to x86 in 32bit and there is no SPARC equivalent > hardware. Say an old driver for an ISA card that can't physically > be > put into any AMD64 or SPARC machine. > > > --Works with Bash but not ksh > > Depends. > > > --Works with single core but not dual or even 8 cores > > You broke my friends laptop because it is dual core, you broke my > build > machine the main gate machine and the home directory server for the > > majority of the Sun employees in Menlo Park CA (yes that machine > gets > latest and greatest bits as does the gate machine and many > developers > workstations, laptops). Any it breaks the Sun Ray server I'm > currently > using to type this email. > > > --Works with cli but crashes X Window > > Crashing X is very bad, thats denial of service. > > None of those are acceptable. > > >> This is why we have "projects" which are by and large > experimental > >> branches. > > > > Can a "project" be long-lived enough to allow for long-term > > development by a largish team (like doing an 12 month project for > a > > team of 15 without getting hopelessly away from the main branch? > > It certainly can. Let me give you a real example of a current > OpenSolaris.org hosted project. The crypto project. While it just > very > recently appeared on OpenSolaris.org the project itself has existed > in > an ongoing development for more than 5 years now. It took us about > 3 > years of internal development with weekly resync to the main branch > (the > ON consolidation gate) before we integrated any code. Since then > we > have had smaller project tasks some of which take a week others > take > months and some have taken as long as 6-7 months of work off the > main > branch before integration. We fully expect this to continue in a > similar way not that we are hosting our work in the open and doing > our > design in the open. Something will be small others will be much > bigger. > > The other thing that happens is that what is now the > OpenSolaris.org KMF > project was originally part of the Crypto project, but it was > deemed > sufficiently large that it was factored out into its own project > (before > OpenSolaris started BTW). >
Thanks for the feedback. Interesting. Chris Mahan 818.943.1850 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.christophermahan.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
