On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:10:25PM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Jörg seems to want the ARC and c-teams to use a different method than > >> they use today for deciding when some utility (or library, or whatever) > >> name is a conflict with another existing one. > >> > >> I recommend that Jörg make a proposal for such a change without making > >> such a proposal specific to his troubles with star, compare, etc... > >> > >> I'm not sure that we can come up with such a method that will: a) allow > >> OpenSolaris to evolve and grow, while b) preventing any conflicts with > >> > > > > As long as it it impossible to implement the arc decisions in OpenSolaris, > > OpenSolaris cannot evolve. > > > > You have to verify that the way it is currently handled actually works. > > My impression is that it is either impossible to integrate stuff at all > > or that some people inside Sun boycott the integration of star. If you > > would ask me now, I could only say "it does not work". > > > > Think about how to find a way to change this.... > > > > Jorg, you are in SWAN now. You can put together a workspace, integrate > star into it, send out the code reviews and ultimately submit the RTI. > Until you have an RTI that is refused, or an ARC case that is rejected, > I don't think it is fair to assume *anyone* is rejecting anything if > you've done. > > But its also not fair to expect them to do this work for you. If > someone else at Sun wants star badly then *they* could do the work. > > So, if your ARC cases have been approved, put together a workspace, and > send out code reviews as the first step. Its really not that hard. > > I'd offer to help you with it myself, except I know nothing about the > SFW consolidation, and have little interest learning it just to help you > out. If however you want to integrate into ON, I can offer you some > basic suggestions... but I'm still not going to do the work for you > myself! I don't think anyone else will, either. >
it depends, would the integration of star mark an end this ground-hog-day[1] like conversation? ed 1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_(film) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
