PSARC 2008/212 Integrate Unison into Solaris

[James Carlson]

Roland Mainz writes:
> > According to the message from the community web site, there is no active
> > development on this product any more. While bug fixes, small
> > improvements and contributed patches may come. So I suggested to use
> > Committed level. If members think this is not proper, please let me know
> > and it will be fixed.
> 
> Erm..."devils advocate" question: If Unison is no longer maintained...
> why should it be integrated into (Open)Solaris ? And how do other OSes
> (like Linux) handle the support issue (e.g. no upstream where they can
> send the bug reports to) ?

No upstream change is (perversely enough) the good case: it means that
we can focus on getting the integration and maintenance right in
OpenSolaris, and don't have to worry so much about any costs due to
forking from or contributing to the upstream ... because there
effectively isn't one.

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