James Carlson wrote: > Alan Coopersmith writes: > > James Carlson wrote: > > > Why not go through the normal path? Devise a fix, request a sponsor, > > > get code reviews and testing, and then integrate. > > > > Have you looked at http://opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/request_sponsor/ > > lately? You can see how many Roland has devised a fix for, requested a > > sponsor, and been ignored for months or longer (the first one on the list > > from him is now over a year old). > > I did ... but I missed it on the list. > > In any event, it doesn't make sense to me to cram this into an > unrelated set of changes just to get it integrated. If the problem is > "I can't get a sponsor," then let's try to fix that problem instead.
It's not a "I can't get a sponsor", it's far more likely "I can't get a RTI". Technically the issue boils down to the term "propper testing" - in theory we would have to test all possible codepaths for this change which is almost impossible for an external contributor. The part which I can test is that Solaris boots, runs, shuts propperly down and compiles OS/Net and passes the ksh93 test suite without triggering coreadm to put a dump into /var/core/ ... but doing more becomes tricky... finally we concluded that I can only gurantee 98% of 100% required for a normal RTI approval, leaving one or two possible bugs behind somewhere in the tree (and we don't have the equivalent of a tactical nuke to drive the remaning bugs out of their holes... ;-( ) ... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
