Jyri Virkki wrote: > Jeff Trawick wrote: > >> Amanda Waite wrote: >> >>> Ok, I just read: >>> >>> "Sun products should consider Volatile interfaces as equivalent to >>> Consolidation Private. A contract is required for use of these >>> interfaces outside of the supplying consolidation" >>> >>> In the Interface Taxonomy spec. I didn't expect it to be documented so >>> didn't look, silly me. >>> >> Earlier we pursued an interface contract covering the use of OpenLDAP by >> certain Web Stack components, but that was apparently too >> controversial. Jyri suggested that we establish the stability of the >> OpenLDAP interfaces required by Web Stack components as something other >> than volatile. >> > > The history here is > > - OpenLDAP as it exists today in OpenSolaris (via SFW) is specified in > PSARC/2008/507 and all interfaces are Volatile. > - As quoted above, a contract with the team owning it is needed to import > those interfaces. > - However, the team who delivered PSARC/2008/507 is hesitant or unwilling > to agree to that contract. So while lighttpd needs that contract you > may not be able to get it. > > - ... which in turn led to Web Stack team (Jeff) volunteering to take > ownership of OpenLDAP and revamp the delivery to make it more amenable > for consumption by apps like Apache, PHP & lighttpd (both in terms of > the delivery details like paths etc, and on the procedural side > by raising the stability of a chosen subset of its interfaces so hopefully > contracts won't be needed for mainstream use (but that's TBD since the > subset hasn't been identified)). > > - However, that revamped delivery case doesn't exist yet, so lighttpd can't > import it yet. Apache & APR are in the same wait state, see LSARC/2009/123 > which is pending, waiting for the new OpenLDAP case to go through first. > > > The best way forward is to get the new OpenLDAP case (and delivery) > done and then lighttpd can simply import it (and we can revive the APR > case as well to get APR using OpenLDAP). > > > >
The Interface Taxonomy says: "Sun products should consider Volatile interfaces as equivalent to Consolidation Private. A contract is required for use of these interfaces outside of the supplying consolidation"? Again from the Interface Taxonomy, "Consolidation Private" requires that "[changes be] coordinated among all providers and users of the interface", but a contract is only needed for anyone outside of the consolidation planning on importing the interface. There is a "Contracted Consolidation Private" which always require a contract, but that's not in play here. This all suggest that as PSARC/2008/507 is integrated into the SFW consolidation, any other package in SFW can import it's volatile interfaces. Ref: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/interface-taxonomy/ Wow, I sound like a lawyer :o) Anyway that's how I read it. Amanda
