[website-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] New Release of B.O.O!

[Stephen Hahn]

* Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at mountall.com> [2006-11-29 12:35]:
> Do we have any estimation on how long will it take
> to have a normal b.o.o ? I mean the one that community
> can make real use of ? With all due respect and appreciation
> of Linda's and others work I think that resources are poured
> in wrong direction - community needs a full blown CR
> tracking system, rather than another way to peek into
> a subset of the Sun' internal tool.
> I understand the complexity of the task and long reaching
> implications of such a move, but that is something that
> needs to be done.

  My answers will be unsatisfactory, I fear.
  
  We definitely don't have a time estimate.  The issue (as I see it) is
  more one of changing the current internal-only tool to a tool that all
  contributors/participants can utilize.  There are exploratory
  discussions in this area, in which OpenSolaris possesses but one seat
  at the table.  So, at least for a while, we will continue to fund
  improvements in b.o.o while the larger discussions are proceeding.

  (If you like, you can view the opening of Sun's bug database as a
  similar process to the due diligence procedure followed to open the
  code of Solaris: because some of the factors are not germane to
  OpenSolaris, the process will appear opaque.)

  - Stephen

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Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/