On Sunday 24 February 2008 15:49, Eric Reid wrote:
> Sriram Natarajan wrote:
> > What is the value add we are providing here by bundling this component ?
>
> Greater availability of Drupal 6 to potential Solaris users.
>
> > Do we plan to claim support for this component in the near future ?
>
> Yes, though details still being worked out. Per Sun's Indiana team:
>
>     For the most part, the packages that Sun is integrating into Indiana
>     should be supported.
>     However, the level of support may not be the same as how we typically
>     support the core parts of Solaris.

The problem is that everything `potentially internet facing' will need a very 
fast acting and organized support system. I think, the worst we can do, is 
include something, because it's easy to do, and then not committing to the 
support which would be needed.

I had my wake-up moment yesterday when a missed vulnerability in one 
(non-standard) Joomla component was exploited:-(

Drupal had eight releases of the 5.* release over the last year, are we 
prepared to take that load?

"
drupal-5.0.tar.gz     15-Jan-2007 08:20  729K  
drupal-5.1.tar.gz     30-Jan-2007 00:20  729K  
drupal-5.2.tar.gz     26-Jul-2007 19:25  734K  
drupal-5.3.tar.gz     17-Oct-2007 21:35  736K  
drupal-5.4.tar.gz     05-Dec-2007 21:20  736K  
drupal-5.5.tar.gz     06-Dec-2007 20:30  736K  
drupal-5.6.tar.gz     10-Jan-2008 22:20  737K  
drupal-5.7.tar.gz     29-Jan-2008 00:10  737K
"

 
>
> > Now, if we choose Drupal then there will be others asking for Joomla
> > and so on ... ? Where will you draw the line ?

I looked at both, and I've chosen Joomla some time back;-)

Thanks,
-- Marco


>
> Each can be considered an RFE to Indiana, and will be considered on a
> case by case basis.
>
> ERR
>
> > thanks
> > sriram
> >
> > Eric Reid wrote:
> >> Sriram,
> >>
> >> You may not only ask, it was anticipated! Yes, this is somewhat new
> >> territory for OpenSolaris, but keep in mind what Indiana is intended
> >> to be, at least as it applies to Open Source Software (OSS). The
> >> Solaris Cabinet within Sun's Software organization decided that the
> >> inclusion of some *key* Web 2.0 OSS applications would have huge
> >> upside and minimal downside -- the Indiana repository will give
> >> another place for OpenSolaris users to get Drupal and other Web 2.0
> >> apps (Fedora Commons repository software has been identified for
> >> Release 2, for example).
> >>
> >> No commercial apps, to my knowledge, just F/OSS. Also, my
> >> understanding is that the size and nature of Indiana's repository is
> >> inclusive, and it's not as if we're trying to pack all this onto an
> >> OpenSolaris distro DVD.
> >>
> >> I can check to see if this is customer-driven, but I'd suspect that
> >> in the case of Drupal, it's more because it's a big RedShift/Web 2.0
> >> offering that runs quite well on Solaris, with huge buzz and
> >> rocketing adoption in the industry.
> >>
> >> Happy to discuss/ERR
> >>
> >> Sriram Natarajan wrote:
> >>> If I may ask, why ?  Is there a customer asking for this ? Where
> >>> will this end if we start carrying all user applications ?
> >>>
> >>> - sriram
> >>>
> >>> Eric Reid wrote:
> >>>> Hello webstack-discuss,
> >>>>
> >>>> We are intending to include the Drupal 6 Content Management system
> >>>> by b86 of OpenSolaris, in time for the first 'Indiana' official
> >>>> release later this year. I will be spearheading this effort,
> >>>> including creation and pushing through of the ARC case (which will
> >>>> be posted here soon).
> >>>>
> >>>> This effort will concentrate on Drupal 6 Core only - no Drupal 4 or
> >>>> 5, no add-on modules.
> >>>>
> >>>> This note is to inform the Community of our intentions -- look for
> >>>> lots more in the days and weeks to come, and don't hesitate to
> >>>> contact me with questions, suggestions, observations or flames :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Eric Reid
> >>>> Sun ISV Engineering
> >>>
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