(moved out of the case review, and over to arc-discuss) On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 12:38 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:18:48AM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote: > > One of the problems that PSARC has had is that those who are doing > > interesting work often found it difficult to justify the time > > commitment involved in active participation. This would sometimes > > lead to having folks involved on PSARC who hadn't actually delivered > > a project involving substantial change to the system in many years. > > The obvious solution to this is blow up the number of members so as to > spread the load. That might not work for other reasons, it's worth > doing _something_ to keep the ARC function while addressing the above > problem. Another solution would be to rotate members into and out of > the ARC, so that members don't get stuck with heavy ARC load for more > than, say, 1 year, sort of how gatekeeping used to be (you'd do your > stint as GK, and then go back to normal projects). > > Even with OpenSolaris, which might change user expectations of interface > stability to match Linux user expectations of that, the ARC function is, > IMO, very important. If it's not working out well now, we should look > at how to make it work well.
One related thing I've thought about is collapsing the ARCs into one ARC. Having the ability to draw from a wider range of expertise and more members and interns on a given case review could be a good thing. -Seb
