[ogb-discuss] [opensolaris-summit] My comments (very subjective) on proposed Summit topics

Garrett D'Amore Garrett.Damore at Sun.COM
Wed Sep 26 08:28:02 PDT 2007


Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Alan DuBoff wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> There is another real problem here.  I think the only people who are 
>>> qualified to "fully" evaluate the bug database are those who are also 
>>> Sun employees.  Why?  Because only they really know what the current 
>>> bugster contains, and what features are needed, and what aren't.
>>>       
>> I just chopped out a bunch of folks on the cc list.
>>
>> But I wanted to ask, what's the difference anyway? I have seen people 
>> complain that they can't read the entire bugs on the OpenSolaris bug 
>> database. Ok, even if you could read them internally, there are cases 
>> where you still need to look at the actual files to fully understand 
>> what is being changed.
>>
>> Hypothetically, let's say you created a process that made it so 
>> difficult for engineers to do their putback, that they started to slip 
>> changes into another change request to get their changes back?
>>     
>
> That would be an error.  IF the process were so heavy weight, then 
> something is wrong.
>
> I've slipped many changes into a single putback ... *but* I try to make 
> sure I have only one CR. 

This didn't come out right.  I meant to say, "one CR per bug".    So one 
putback, many bugs, and hence many CRs.  Sorry for the confusion.

    -- Garrett


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