JohnS ... I was under the impression that code should
JohnS never make reference to the bug it fixes. Am I mistaken here?
No, you are quite correct. Referring to an open bug e.g.:
/*
* Work around silly misfeature until 699 is fixed.
*/
is OK, but the comment
(Oops, resending with my Sun address instead of my personal address, so the
list will accept the message...)
Frank Why should Sun engineers use different processes for contributing code
Frank than non-Sun community members ?
Because they are employees who have direct access to the source tree
avinashtjoshi But there is a small problem. Whenever we request for a
avinashtjoshi sponsor, we dont get any reply for days! In this case,
avinashtjoshi what can we do?
You could wait, or you could contribute a more meaningful fix. I don't
mean to make light of the many contributions that have
Ceri Does anyone else agree that this might be a problem...
Yes.
Ceri ... and are they able to see a way out?
For now, opensolaris-code is my best solution. Bigger picture,
I'm trying to push to get our tools et al. migrated so we can
move the gate outside the firewall and ultimately
ying Now I've been approved to be a middle-tier sponsor.
Anyone can subscribe to the mailing list. As a middle-tier
sponsor, you are now welcome to sponsor requests as well.
Have at it! :-)
-- John
http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck
Meera I would like to request a sponsor for bug 649863 ...
There is no such bug; Sun bug IDs have seven digit. Please let us know
which bug you mean and we'll proceed. It might help if you also include
the Synopsis of the bug.
Meera sir i just requested for my SCA Number today will send it to
Hi there,
Minskey I would like to work with you on this bug.
I see that you have been sponsoring putbacks. While this is great, it
would have been better if you had followed the process documented at:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/crt/becoming-a-sponsor/
and sent us mail,
Bonnie I believe Minskey signed up as an intern early on. His first putback
Bonnie was done with Frits in January. Let me know if we're missing
Bonnie Minskey's name from the intern list - I know I have a related email
Bonnie thread that I can dig up.
Ah, well: that would explain it, as we
Sanjay ... we don't require people to update the fixed in bugster. The
Sanjay fixed, committed and integrated fields get updated only when the build
Sanjay closes.
Alan That seems broken, but I suppose that's my non-ON point of view, coming
Alan from consolidations where the engineer marks the
Dan What's the minimum qualification for membership in tier 3?
Bonnie There is no minimum qualification which is the reason for the partner
Bonnie requirement.
Um, not correct. We failed to specify such a minimum qualification in the
write-up (my bad), but we discussed something similar to what
While anyone can subscribe to this mailing list, the intent is that
membership consists of OpenSolaris community members who are able to
act as sponsors for community bug fixes and features being integrated
into the OpenSolaris source base.
Currently only a subset of the Sun engineers working on
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