[indiana-discuss] [ogb-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Move /usr/gnu/bin to front of path, add /sbin

[James Carlson]

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM writes:
> 
> >I don't see how. Just because a distribution makes some bits
> >downloadable doesn't mean that they have to go through ARC as far as I
> >know.
> 
> >Naming issues aside; I don't see the problem here.
> 
> But isn't that precisely the issue here?
> 
> Aside, Sun does ship things which aren't ARCed because management overrides
> the decisions of the development process.

As long as it's just a "beta" or "test" and not a "product," there's
no such issue.

Project teams already do this today by shipping BFU images -- or
"frkit" bits -- without going through any architectural approval
process.

I know of no requirement to do ARC review before shipping a test
image.  I'd certainly like to see projects coming in for ARC review as
*early* as possible, and certainly earlier than shipping any bits at
all, but that doesn't always happen, and I don't believe it's a
requirement.

If Sun thinks this is something other than a "beta" or "test" image,
then we may well have a problem here, but it's still not an OGB
problem.  It's a Sun process problem, because such a project would be
bypassing Sun's long-standing product delivery mechanisms.

> It's fine for experiemtns on OpenSolaris and I'm all for that, but it
> should then not be made part of the "distro with mature components".

... without appropriate review.

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