[csw-maintainers] Minor web site change?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Gary,

Am 25.06.2009 um 11:39 schrieb Gary Law:
> 2009/6/25 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
>> Why? Usually it is no different packaging for Solaris 9 than for
>> Solaris 8. Why drop Solaris 8 without the need? If there is *any*
>> problem on Solaris 8 it is of course ok to just release for Solaris  
>> 9.
>
> The problem for me is testing. Rolling out something that compiles is
> all very well and good, but if it's not tested on Sol8 then it might
> be buggy, and might in fact be worse than the old Sol8 version we have
> in the archive. Finding the hardware/virtualisation kit for testing
> for Sol8 is hard enough now, and it's only going to get worse.

This will be mitigated when the ESX farm has been upgraded to vSphere 4.
It should then be possible to assign dedicated package install testing
machines for all operating systems. The other reasons however stay
very valid.


Best regards

   -- Dago