[opensolaris-summit] An Apology / Correction

[Shawn Walker]

Greetings,

I want to correct something that I mistakenly indicated when I spoke
at the Summit. The specific patch that took so darn long to integrate
was not the one for profanity, that only took about 10 days. Arguably,
it shouldn't have taken 10 days even, but that is very reasonable. If
my ears could burn any more red than they are now, I'm sure someone
would call an ambulance.

Instead, it was actually this bug that took so long to integrate:

4896568 kernel/ufs mount message for remounting read-only is bogus

The request sponsor date was 7/10/05, while the integration date was 10/12/05.

If you look at the chart here, you'll get a better idea of the request
submission date vs. actual integration date:
http://opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/request_sponsor/

If you look at the "Fix Integrated into a Nevada Build" section,
you'll note that many fixes took up to 3-4 months from the initial
sponsor request before they were integrated.

Now remember, in some cases, this is due to the submitter working with
the sponsor through the process. However, in other cases, the request
was just in a queue somewhere for a long time. As an example, I have a
fix for 4754400 that I requested a sponsor for on 9/25/07.

The worst thing on that page, howver, is the "Request Suspended"
section. You'll note that there are many requests there that folks
abandoned because after waiting for a sponsor to be assigned (months
or even a year later) we were no longer interested in working on the
issue.

I intend to try re-opening my requests for those again soon and seeing
if I can get someone to pick them up.

I'm not really that angry or mad at folks. I understand the pain
involved. I'm just looking for the process to improve and a lot of the
engineers have been extremely helpful.

Finally, I want to sincerely apologise for my incorrect recollection
of the events :(

Thanks,
-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. " --Donald Knuth