[csw-maintainers] [policy] files/dirs in /var/opt/csw

[James Lee]

On 17/01/11, 18:54:39, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote regarding Re:
[csw-maintainers] [policy] files/dirs in /var/opt/csw:

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:02 AM, James Lee <james at opencsw.org> wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > Also please can someone remove the references to supporting NFS share
> > of /opt/csw (as we now don't), that is eg:
> >
> > http://www.opencsw.org/about/core-principles/
> > http://www.opencsw.org/use-it/sharing-optcsw/
> > http://www.opencsw.org/about/faq/
> >
> >
> > and probably some others.  Further it would be good to add an additional
> > note and make an announcement to explain the change in policy.
> >

> Are you referring to some explicit "we dont support this any more"
> decision that I missed, or are you saying,
> "the recent vote about /var, implies that we dont support it any more"
> ?

> If the latter,

The latter.

> I believe that our president said before the most
> recent vote, that the "sharing /opt/csw" issue would be decided later,
> by a separate, explicit vote.

But it's already decided.  In fact the /var/ issue was previously set
by the reverse.  The previous policy was to support NFS, this already
implied no /var files via prototypes, so I'm unsure why the issue was
revisited from the /var end.



James.