On 5/2/21 6:35 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Sun, 2 May 2021, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
My personal preference is for "all known bugs fixed" release points. If
someone wants to track changes more often then the "pkg update" mechanism
provides that.
The "all known bugs fixed" release points are not even remotely possible given
the rolling build/release model. The release is just a snapshot in time. Even
major Linux distributions and FreeBSD are not able to accomplish what you
describe. The internal processes that Sun used to internally test and "bake" a
release for a couple of years are not possible.
Even those never produced a "all known bugs fixed" release - just a "all bugs
considered to be showstoppers for the release" fixed. I doubt there has been
any "all known bugs fixed" release of a significant operating system in many
decades - there's just so many things that can break that you have to have a
cutoff point to determine what's truly going to hold up your release and what
you can accept and leave until later. (And later may never come - there are
some bugs that lingered for decades in Sun's bug tracker, never getting fixed
or closed, and I'm sure the same is true in Linux & BSD distros as well.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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