[ogb-discuss] [driver-discuss] Project proposal - Integration

[David Gwynne]

I've only just got back from a few days away with family and largely  
away from the "intarweb", so I apologise for not being more active in  
this discussion.

On 19/12/2007, at 4:29 PM, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
>
>> "political" considerations, and I think Sun's business concerns  
>> and the
>> concerns of the open source community may not be well aligned on  
>> this issue.

That is correct, but as it has been explained before these are  
(supposed to be) independent concerns.

> Right, so unless LSI speak to the community, there needs to be some
> indirect communication, so how about this strategy:
>
> We give Sun's "political" forces until 2nd week of Jan 2008 to come up
> with integration schedule for LSI's native driver, James McPherson
> acting as a middleman between Sun mgmt and the community.

To me this sounds like it is formalising the "process" that has been  
in place since I first submitted the RFE to have mfi integrated into  
OpenSolaris, ie, wait for Sun and/or LSI. My understanding was that  
decisions affecting OpenSolaris was to be made by the OpenSolaris  
community separately to the decisions Sun make regarding Solaris.

Why is Sun involved here? Because they MAY choose to use mfi in  
Solaris too?

Please clue me in if I'm missing something here.

> Said schedule should not extend beyond the community set deadline for
> the preliminary RTI, say 2 months after their response (2nd week of  
> Mar
> 2008).
>
> Meanwhile, James & Co proceed with testing and code review for David's
> driver. If Sun+LSI do not file their RTI by deadline, James files a
> PSARC fast track and, 1 week later, an ON RTI.
>
> -Artem
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