[Fwd: Re: axyftp [LSARC/2008/271 Self Review]]

[Gary Winiger]

> Gary Winiger wrote:
> >  Why should it be part of the single Solaris bucket?
> 
> Maybe this (and the other "Comay-List" cases) should simply
> be targeting the CompanionCD Consolidation, and we can simply
> have one mondo-case that says "this list of 500 cases goes
> there, where we expect to have architectural chaos, unsupportable
> and unsupported dumpware mixed up with a few priceless jewels"

	Having just chatted with Dave [Cced], there seems to be some
	miscommunication from what might have been said to what
	might have been heard.  The page I've been on and I believe
	is the page Dave espoused, is that Sun needs to have engineering
	resources who will work with the community and maintain the
	FOSS being added.  Secondly there needs to be a reason for adding
	the particular component whether FOSS or internal.  There was
	a list of packages that OpenSolaris didn't contain.  Of those
	packages, engineering resources were to be applied to triage
	them and determine whether they were indeed good candidates for
	OpenSolaris.  It was not here's 100s or 1000s of things that
	will compile on OpenSolaris, lets throw them all in the bucket.
	It was of the 100s or 1000s of things which make sense to provide
	in OpenSolaris and will have engineering support to work with the
	community to support/sustain/improve/maintain current in OpenSolaris.

	Again no free puppies here.

> Seriously.  If we don't ever intend to put any engineering effort
> into these things to make them work [at all, better, as expected]
> on OpenSolaris, we shouldn't be mixing them into the core OS source
> tree (aka the ON consolidation)!

	I don't believe axyftp was proposed for the ON consolidation.
	In fact, not that it's really architecturally relevant, I can't
	find a consolidation noted in the Self Review submission.

	Frankly I don't believe this any longer qualifies as Self Review.

Gary..