[csw-maintainers] comments on camp "wave", solaris 9 vs 10, etc

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

>> I am okay with this being a general principle also. If there is
>> EXTREME effort required to get something compiled on sol9, but it's an
>> easy compile on sol10, then the sol9 version can be somewhat orphaned.
>> My sticking point, is that a maintainer should at least put in *some*
>> effort to compile on sol9, and attempt some amount of patching. And if
>> they get stuck or out of their depth, they should request help.
>> "I cant get it to work" is not the same thing as "it cant be
>> done"[without extreme effort]. Noone is an expert in everything. Let's
>> work together!
>
> Yes, that's the point. But: If they request help and nobody is
> interested in doing the extra work it should be ok to release
> the built packages.

The proposition made at the summer camp was:

- to let the maintainer valuate the effort and decide if he has the
  resources to accomplish the packaging for Solaris 10 and/or Solaris 9;
  nobody else can judge his perception of difficulty and the
  availability of time for that.

- if the maintainers *decides* that the effort is to important, he can
  orphan the package on Solaris 9; this bring us to a situation when
  somebody can take up the orphaned package and have 2 different
  maintainers

-- 
Peter