Hi people!

"Doug Way" <dway at mailcan.com> wrote:
> Just to throw in a concrete example, Goran & I were casually discussing
> (on a partitioning thread here a month ago) whether Collections should
> be partitioned as a separate PI package from Kernel.  On one hand, you
> might have a separate group of maintainers taking care of Collections,
> versus the Kernel, which makes some sense.  (At least this was the
> initial idea with TFNR.)  But Collections is not at all separately
> deployable from Kernel, the two are very dependent on each other.  I
> think the separate deployability aspect is more important, so I'd favor
> keeping them in the same package.
> 
> This is sort of a special case, since the Kernel is not exactly a
> "package" which can be loaded, it is the base image.  (Although it could
> still be defined as a package or module.)

And thus we should also remember the idea of TFNR - the idea of making
sure interested and people willing to take responsibility of a certain
part should be able to do that. In this case there are probably several
people interested in maintaining Collections - but not the whole kernel!

So even though I generally agree with the "deployable" attribute, for
the parts that we typically can't break out yet - staking Collections
out as a separate "part" (as in part-itioning) from kernel doesn't seem
to be harmful. It will still be maintained using the update stream.

Sure we can lump it all together in a huge "kernel" part - and assign 20
maintainers to it - but will that give the effect we want? The "effect"
being responsible motivated maintainers tending carfully for these
classes. I am not sure.

> Also, I'm mixing the simple near-term partitioning project with the
> longer-term modules project here.  (Though it's not *too* long-term as
> Dan says. :) )  But I think the principles are the same in this case. 
> Our partitioning should still be roughly based on deployable units.

"Rougly" yes, but... if this leads to a single "part" (the whole Basic
image) then there is no point, is there? :)

> - Doug

regards, Göran