star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008]

[Mark A. Carlson]

What is the "upstream community" for star, rmt,and librmt?

Is it just Jörg?

Are we treating this upstream community any differently
than the other ones we work with?

Just a thought.

-- mark

James C. McPherson wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
>>
>>> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>>> Actually, if we (OpenSolaris, Sun, and you) cannot arrive to a 
>>>> suitable understanding, I think the idea of forking the code 
>>>> becomes counter-productive.  
>>> Yup - maybe at that point we (the community) would choose to not 
>>> have star in
>>> the system at all, but relegate it to one of the "add-on software" 
>>> repositories.
>>
>> A small hint: You are not the community, you are John Plocher.
>>
>> If the OpenSolaris project (and the people that control it) is not 
>> mature enough for respectful dealings with other OpenSource software 
>> projects, then it may be
>> a mistake to start this kind of relationship.
>>
>> As other people don't seem to concur with you, it seems to be a 
>> problem with one or two people only and may be fixed. 
>
> Joerg,
> John Plocher and Garrett D'Amore are speaking for many
> people in the OpenSolaris community.
>
> Your definition of "mature project" and "respectful
> dealings" appears to only include "doing what Joerg
> Schilling tells them to".
>
> I don't think we're getting anywhere, because no
> matter how many times people make suggestions to you
> which would assist with what you've stated your
> goal is, you reject them immediately.
>
>
> This is why we need the equivalent of the linux and
> *bsd world's non-mainline package repos.
>
>
> James C. McPherson
> -- 
> Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
> Sun Microsystems
> http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp    http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog