On 2/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>That sounds like a great idea especially for people who are planning on >deploying Solaris Nevada or building software solutions out of it. Would >it be sufficient to have, say, two builds of stabilitzation every 3 months >or so? What this suggestion include additional testing and respins when neded (just like we had 55a/55b); or is just a development pause needed (no RFEs, just bug fixes or even restricted bugfixes?)
I think the latter more than the former. A period of time where new features are further tested and bug fixes only are applied, but no new additional features. I'm unsure of what would potentially be considered for restricted bugfixes, but everything would have to fufill the "does it stabilize further" test. At the end of these periods, one would have a known stable source tree. In answer to a previous suggestion, having an older and more tested single build isn't sufficient, as there is always something good and bad about that. One tends to have to pull patches to improve on parts of that, and so a binary-based stable build is not ideal for anyone truly building upon OpenSolaris (code is great!)
Casper
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