James Carlson wrote:
Valerie Anne Bubb writes:
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Mark J. Nelson wrote:
3. Rename Steve's onnv-gate repository to on-gate
...and put it under the ON Project. This shouldn't be tied to Nevada;
when it's time to worry about releasing Nevada, then the onnv-gate (or
maybe even on11-gate) repository should be created as a fork of
on-gate.
Why should we hide our internal forking & gate shifting from the outside?
Because it's an artifact of Sun's distribution that's not necessarily
related to the work of any other distribution.
In other words, all distributions need to be free to decide when
they're cutting a release. Some may want to do it more often than the
once-every-5-years-or-so that we do it. Some might even want fewer
releases. It's plausible that some might want "no releases" at all
and instead favor a stream of versioned packages.
In any event, the point where we decide to fork is our problem, not
other people's problem.
It's possible that other distributions _might_ want to piggyback on
our release scheduling. If so, then that may be a good reason to
expose those forks, as the frozen code itself could still be kept
open.
But I do think that divorcing the community from our release process
is helpful, in that the community has to start thinking about its own
release process.
+1, or seconded, or "I agree", or whatever phrase is appropriate to show
my agreement.
cheers,
steve
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