Al Hopper writes:
> Please don't ask an unpaid, volunteer, OpenSolaris developer to make 
> changes that are simply stylistic or (personal) preference based. 

That doesn't seem at all right to me.  Are you saying that style (and
thus readability) no longer matters in a code review?

> If its important to you personally - then please feel perfectly free 
> to checkout the relevant files and make the changes yourself.

... and that seems quite wrong.  It's not at all the reviewer's
responsibility to implement the required changes.  That responsibility
rests with the project team.  If we set the requirement that high, no
sane person would ever volunteer to review anything.

Note that the reviewers are volunteers.  They're not being paid by Sun
to do this.  They get no brownie points for it.  They're doing it as a
favor for the project team.

> PS: If its good enough to integrate its *good* *enough* to integrate. 
> We simply can't build GOLD-PLATED software using unpaid OpenSolaris 
> volunteers.

So, how much lower should the bar be set?

The project team chose to go into ON rather than some other more
suitable consolidation such as SFW.  ON's bar is intentionally set
very high -- these are the crown jewels we're talking about here.  I
doubt you're going to get much agreement that the bar on entry to ON
should be lowered to allow just "any" open source code.

I think it's Roland's cross to bear that he chose ON and is sticking
with it.

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