[opensolaris-summit] Brandorr's comments on proposed Summit topics

[Glynn Foster]

John Plocher wrote:
> The Solaris model is one of stability of interfaces over time.  The
> model says that we desire that all code and scripts that were written
> following the rules will continue to operate correctly on any and
> all minor and micro releases of Solaris in the future.
> 
> This obviously is not the same model that is desired for Indiana.
> 
> Unfortunately, nobody has articulated the specifics of what this
> new model are, nor have they put any effort in developing transition
> plans to move between the old and new models.  Topping it all off,
> we (Sun, OpenSolaris,...) only have a "stable tree" to work with.
> There is no "unstable development branch" where we can do all those
> chaotic things that you seem to desire.

Very much what I'm keen to tackle at the summit. Most of my concerns during the
Indiana PSARC meeting a couple of months ago revolved around this. As you point
out, it's certainly a pretty hard for anything that isn't Solaris to know what
to do best, without losing the unique benefits of those guarantees (and by
Solaris I mean 'official release' rather than the express train).


Glynn