Mike Gerdts wrote: > Alan's announcements in July were also sent to xwin-discuss.
Since several people have mentioned those... for several years I'd been sending the list of changes in the X SVR4 packages that needed to be reflected in the translation to IPS packages when building the distro. Those could have gone to pkg-discuss or indiana-discuss, I chose indiana-discuss as they seemed more about the distro than the packaging system themselves - I could have also filed them in bugzilla, in which case they'd have been distro/opensolaris/packaging instead of somewhere in the pkg bug categories. When David rolled those in with the rest of the changes, the code reviews got sent to pkg-discuss though. In any case, as explained recently in my blog [1], there's no longer a reason for me to send those, as we now deliver the X packages in IPS format, so the release engineers are no longer translating SVR4 packages to IPS and there's no translation manifests to maintain. I'm still posting the changelogs for each build to http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+x_win/changelogs and people who are really interested can see the hg commit notifications in real time on the http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/x-cons-notify/ mailing list. As for Mike's original suggestion, it makes sense to me, given the low volume of the list, and in some sense "Project Indiana" was completed and integrated at the point where SXCE was dismantled, and the IPS-based distro created by the project became the main/only release format for Sun/Oracle for the OpenSolaris distro and future Solaris 11 releases. [1] http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/entry/revelations_145 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
