On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 15:40 -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: > >From the outside, this is how folks view what Sun is doing. They see some of > the things that Sun does and scratch their head. It's not as though Sun is > doing the wrong thing, they just don't communicate with the community very > well when they do many of these things, so the community is in the dark.
indeed, i don't know about others, but I feel that I do not see many things which are going on inside of ON development. Like, schedule of stabilization builds, code reviews, decisions made, etc. Also, it would be wonderful if Sun engineers invented a rule of thumb which will enforce every single putback to go through the community review before merging to the main tree, similar to what we see in Linux kernel, where patches goes directly to the mailing list and reviewed by thousands of kernel hackers. Not only it will increase community's input but also will stimulate outsiders to commit more often. This would also help outsiders to understand ON code and will create certain discipline among developers. -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
