[indiana-discuss] gdm Bug 4887 - is a fix avalable?

[Dave Miner]

Rob wrote:
>> * Rob (robbyt at robbyt.net) wrote:
>>>> You'd have better luck asking about
>>>> the fix in desktop-discuss
>>>> where the engineers who work on gdm are found.
>>> but wouldn't it be cool if opensolaris/indiana
>> back-ported bug fixes
>>> like some other favorite community distributions? (
>> cough
>>> http://ubuntu.com http://centos.com
>> http://debian.org )
>>> Isn't that the whole point of a real distro? so
>> that end users don't
>>> have to follow Trunk?
>> You mean like the difference between the dev stream
>> and stable stream
>> that we're introducing with 2008.11?
>>
>> http://blogs.gnome.org/gman/2008/12/02/opensolaris-rep
>> ository-gets-a-makeover/
>>
>> http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/en/index.shtml
>> http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/index.shtml
>>
>> -- 
> 
> Wow I had no idea!
> 
> The opensolaris community will be very happy to get bugs fixed in the "stable" branch without having to BFU up to a later SNV. 
> 
> Here's a good one to start with: 
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/webstack-discuss/2008-December/002500.html
> 
> And i'm sure there will be a lot of other bugs that come up after today's big release :)

I would not assume that a large number of fixes will be made available 
on the release branch.  Critical fixes for stability and security are 
the primary targets for that branch; others will require consideration, 
as there is additional cost involved.

As Alan said, something like the webstack bug you reference would have 
to come from that team, and they can make the initial judgment on 
whether they feel it's appropriate for the release branch.

Dave