Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Your company is playing with the lives of the few external community
> members at will, randomly (I'm not the only example).
> If you kept me standing in the kitchen (for at least the time since
> the fox-gate opened in summer 2007) and now you say that you don't
> have any precise plans to eat the dishes, I can ensure you that the
> entire UNIX community will never forget about this.
Why? No open source project accepts 100% of code written for it.
I'm sorry if you ever thought there was any guarantee that your code
would be integrated into a Sun product - there never has been and
never will be - not for this code or any other code. (Hopefully this
is much clearer with your Conary work, which has far less chance of
being used by Sun than the SPARC drivers, which I do still think we'll
ship in some form, whether that be in the contrib repo or the supported
one.)
It's not just a matter of seeing the code is written - if it's in a
Sun produced distro that Sun is selling support for, then what happens
when a customer with a support contract has a problem with it? If there's
no team at Sun who has accepted responsibility for the code, then how can
we justifiably include it in our supported distro and sell support for it?
And that's a management decision, not a technical one.
It's in the FOX gate, which is good - it's now up to each distro to
decide whether or not they want to use it. We provided the FOX gate
as a place for collaboration between distros - yours, Belenix & Sun's,
not a place to force feed stuff into the Sun distros. At the very least,
much of what's in there has to go through the normal review processes
(design review, code review, ARC review, license review, etc.) before
it could go into the Nevada gates used to build the Sun distros.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
