Sun and corporate open source [LWN.net]

Sun and corporate open source

Posted May 1, 2008 5:32 UTC (Thu) by botsie (guest, #1485)
Parent article: Sun and corporate open source

> As Ted points out, OpenSolaris currently gets less than one patch per day 
> from outside the company, the project's governing board is made up 
> entirely of Sun employees, and its (non-distributed) revision control 
> system lives inside the Sun firewall.

Minor quibble: Sun's internal VCS is Teamware, which is an early distributed version control
system designed by Larry McVoy before he wrote BitKeeper.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeamWare for details.

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Sun and corporate open source

Posted May 1, 2008 8:02 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

Huh? The Sun folks that I know and work with tell me that Solaris VCS has moved largely to
Mercury by now. I dunno about Java, don't know any of these folks.

Sun and corporate open source

Posted May 1, 2008 12:58 UTC (Thu) by movement (guest, #871) [Link]

The Solaris kernel + stuff gate is still Teamware, with a real-time Mercurial read-only bridge
(which is publicly available to all). To make changes, you have to use Teamware. This is why
the request-sponsor process exists.