(opensolaris-discuss trimmed)
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:21 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 05/11/2007, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote:
> > That's the point that has a bunch of us concerned - not that the review
> > hasn't been completed, but that they many of them haven't even been started!
>
> Yes, but I think we all trust them as a group of peers to do the right
> thing. I have complete faith that the strong engineering and robust
> review that has always been the mark of Solaris will happen here as
> well.
To be effective, ARC review has to start early enough in the lifecycle
of a project that significant architectural changes are still possible.
Unfortunately, ARC review seems to be happening later & later, with one
recent project coming for inception review after it was done with QA.
Before I curtailed my ARC involvement in a (possibly unsuccessful)
attempt to get a project completed, I suggested that PSARC adopt the
LSARC practice of short, informal "pre-inception" reviews early in a
project lifecycle,
- Bill
