Will Oracle pay a CRT advocate for Solaris ports such as ARM, System Z
or other projects which may not be Oracle's main focus of interest?

Olga

2010/4/8 Nicolas Williams <nicolas.willi...@oracle.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:16:30PM +0200, ольга крыжановская wrote:
>> Still someone *in* Oracle has to process this mail. I doubt this will
>> scale when more and more contributions are send in.
>>
>> Say, what happens if usr/src/uts/arm/... is merged into ON and the
>> developers do > 20 contributions per month (this is the minimum
>> estimate based on observation of Linux and BSD platforms). This would
>> occupy at least one person in Oracle busy the whole month just to
>> process the requests.
>
> That person would be what we call a CRT advocate.  We already have them,
> and they already do a lot of work to handle RTIs.  Automating the push
> of a changeset attached to an RTI would make the additional load of
> pushing that changeset trivial.
>
> Nico
> --
>



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