On 23/07/2010 03:33, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
I don't know, but probably more people contributed to
SFE and/or
/contrib in the last couple of years than to
Blastwave.
Without getting into pointless comparisons (I've used both),
the problem I have with /contrib is
the huge bottleneck that appears to be present getting
stuff from /pending to /contrib, and that even /pending
seems to have been in limbo for awhile.
http://jucr.opensolaris.org/statistics/promoted_packages
http://jucr.opensolaris.org/pending/en/index.shtml
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Packages 1174
Last Updated 2010-04-27 17:14:53
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib/en/index.shtml
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Packages 351
Last Updated 2009-12-15 07:01:09
If /contrib is to be a meaningful alternative, it should
get updated more often, and contain a larger percentage
of the number of packages in /pending.
That, even if not supported, one might want some
control so that people might have confidence in /contrib,
is understandable. That the appearance is that most
such control is a resource that can vanish at a corporate
whim is not acceptable.
Are there any outside approvers, or a process to get them
trained and blessed?
100% agree with you.
The problem is 2010.H1 and...
One of the problems was a clean-up of some contrib packages with bad
dependencies as osol 2010.h1 was supposed to have /contrib configured by
default and some packages would prevent an future upgrade. Then all the
others issues around osol and frankly nothing has been prmoted in last 6
months or so. I think we need to wait a little bit longer and see what
happens to the osol and the source juicer. There is expected to be some
kind of an announcement on the SJ pages soon. I have no clue if it is
going to be a good one or a bad one.
Assuming that osol and the sj will survive /contrib is the way to go imho.
To answer your other question - there are some non-sun people who have a
right to review and vote on packages. Then the idea was that if package
got +2 and none negative votes it would get promoted to /contrib once a
month or so automatically more or less. But all of that has been frozen
for now.
--
Robert Milkowski
http://milek.blogspot.com
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