[csw-maintainers] Package length again

[Philip Brown]

On 11/19/10, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Just my 0.02 € ...
>
> We have a lot of invasive changes pending. Maybe it is time for a
> "rebuild-all-stable" effort to really get rid of old stuff and
> completely start over and rethink how a modern Solaris packaging
> really should look like including IPS interop, fully consistent
> package naming, the new release process...
>
> Don't get me too serious, this may very well be late-night dream
> (or nightmare :-) from me...
>

hey, I'm all for it, as long as you get enough reliable people to
commit to, "I will spend X hours of work every week on this" up front
:)

But nature of open source type projects, says that sort of huge change
set only works for paid time. With volunteer time, you have to do
things incrementally.