[indiana-discuss] scope

[Chris Pickett]

On 8/7/07, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/08/07, Marc Hamilton <Marc.Hamilton at sun.com> wrote:
> > Ian says it is my job to pick, at least for Solaris.
> > For OpenSolaris, it should be a community decision.
> > But if the community wants me to pick, I would probably go with ksh93.
>
> Just curious...not to be offensive, but why is a Marketing VP making
> technical choices surrounding an OS? I was under the impression that
> engineers made the technical decisions.

bugs.opensolaris.org has lots of RFE to get Bourne's shell replaced by
a better shell and nothing happened as far as I can remember (>10
years?).
I don't think Indiana would make much progress unless Ian or Marc make
an executive decision and let the engineers figure out how to
implement it. Without a decision from Ian or Marc we just waste time
in further heated arguments between the royal bourne shell
traditionalists from Sun and the pro-modernisation factions and
neither party has strong enough arguments to win. The worst case would
be that the status quo will be retained, leaving Indiana and
Opensolaris stuck with the old /bin/sh forever.

Chris
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