Josh Hurst wrote:
On 2/5/07, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
Ok Josh, how about you provide detail on which of those "rules"
Sun is suddenly pushing forward, and why they are mindless. If
they truly are "mindless" then it would be really good for other
people to find out why.
Few examples:
Why is it required to remove .so and lint libraries? You don't do that
for X11 even when the API is not public.
Why is is necessary to demand the removal of diff files from the
source tree even after the project team has begged Sun to leave them
in?
Why are 3 Arc cases required for one shell?
Why does it take that long to get a simple shell added to Solaris?
Josh,
you haven't actually provided specific details so I really cannot
comment on the .so, lint and diff claims. And no, I'm not really
interested in wading through many Mb of emails on ksh93 to try to
figure out what you're referring to.
Regarding ARC issues, I get the distinct impression you do not
pay attention to what the relevant ARCs are saying. Their input
is very important to the success of both Solaris and OpenSolaris
projects. And no, it's not just because the ARCs can act as a sort
of gatekeeper. The people who are members of those committees have
significant decades of experience not only in the software and
hardware engineering fields, but also in computer science, computer
security and maths+physics. In my experience, if you address the
issues and questions that ARC members raise before you submit an
RTI request, then your project has a significantly greater chance
of initial success and longer-term maintenance than if you ignore
them.
cheers,
James C. McPherson
--
Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter
http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson
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