PowerMan 2.3 [LSARC/2008/734 FastTrack timeout 12/4/2008]

[Bruce Rothermal]

Changing it to "Patch or Micro". It was a misunderstanding of the  
question.

Bruce

On Nov 25, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Tom Childers wrote:
>> 2.2 Release binding
>>   What is is the release binding?
>>   (see http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/release-taxonomy/)
>>   [X ] Major
>
> What incompatible change does this make that requires a Major release?
>
> (I think the checklist should actually be updated to specify "ARC  
> review
> required" for Major - while Solaris/OpenSolaris has been opened to  
> limited
> Major release changes, they are still limited, and we should know  
> exactly
> what they all are.   For most FOSS cases that qualify for using the  
> checklist,
> "Major" simply indicates a misunderstanding of the question - adding  
> completely
> new software should normally be "Patch or Micro", and cases should  
> choose the
> smallest release binding possible, to avoid needless re-review if  
> someone ever
> has a business case to backport to a previous release.)
>
> -- 
> 	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
> 	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>