On 02/ 3/10 02:12 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
Hello:
Perhaps OpenSolaris should consider adopting a once per year release
cycle since twice per year is evidently unmanageable. At the very least
I should think it would be a bit less embarrassing: 2009/05 slips to
2009.06, ostensibly to stagger download bandwidth from Solaris 10
update. Okay, I can grant you that one. Sadly. looks like the beginning
of a new tradition as 2009.12 slipped to 2010.02, and now I am seeing
sun.com addresses reference 2010.03, wh/basically means we may well need
to add another 2-3 months onto that if we want to get a realistic
estimate for planning purposes.
There has been a desire to have releases every six months expressed, but
no promise or formal announcement that there would be a 2009.12 release.
In fact, since well before December (April 2009, publicly at least),
it was already known that the release wasn't expected until at least
2010.02.
...
Which doesn't seem like it should be at all relevant to an OpenSolaris
discussion until you take into consideration that 1) opensolaris.org is
now sporting Oracle branding and copyright notices, and 2) that we're
also waiting on a long overdue release. Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe
not.
The release is not "long overdue". I'm not sure where you've gotten
that from. Even if you went by the original announced release time,
(which was 2010.02), the month of February isn't over yet.
...
converts in the process. So pick a release engineering schedule that
you can realistically meet and then stick to it.
As the OpenSolaris distribution is composed of components from many
upstream distributors (and has marketing and other considerations to
take into account), I don't believe it is reasonable to expect that the
release schedule solely be based on time.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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