[indiana-discuss] Release roadmap

[Eric Boutilier]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Ian Murdock wrote:
> Peter Tribble wrote:
>> On 6/20/07, Ian Murdock <Ian.Murdock at sun.com> wrote:
>>> Ben Creitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What about a "long term support" release, too?  Ubuntu will support an
>>>> "LTS" release for three years on desktops and 5 years on servers.
>>>> Fedora doesn't have this as far as I know, but for that type of
>>>> stability people turn to CentOS.
>>>
>>> Absolutely. The LTS version will be called Solaris. :-)
>>
>> Is that part of a plan or thinking out loud?
>>
>> It makes sense, in some ways. But at the moment Solaris is the
>> LTS version of Solaris Express - so where would Solaris Express
>> go to in that world view? Replaced by Indiana?
>
> That's the general direction: Indiana is the train, released at 6
> month intervals, and every 2 years or 5 years or whatever (still
> working out the ideal interval), the release is called Solaris,
> and Sun commits to long term support, backward compatibility,
> and the usual things Sun does around Solaris. What happens to
> the Solaris Express brand depends on what decision is made on
> what to call Indiana. Do we move to a model where Indiana is called
> OpenSolaris, i.e., is a binary distribution maintained by the
> community,


I get what you mean here, and I like the point you're making,
but I think re-wording like the following would get the point
across better to a lot more people:

     ... Do we move to a model where _Solaris Express_ is called
     OpenSolaris, i.e., is a binary distribution maintained by
     the community...

I guess that may seem like a tiny nit, but I think to most
people it reads really ambiguously the other way.

Eric



> with multiple distributions in the mold of Ubuntu/
> Kubuntu/Xubuntu/etc. and with binary compatibility across distros?
> Or does Indiana continue to be called Solaris Express and is just one
> distribution of many in the mold of Red Hat/SUSE/Debian/etc. with source
> level compatibility across distros? That seems to be the big question.
>
> -ian
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