Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> Since "resource issues" are irrelevant in an OpenSolaris universe, why
> doesn't the ARC simply deny or defer cases depending on unspecified
> attributes of future project(s)?
This certainly is one possible answer. It has the virtue that it will
bring the problem to a head quickly. It has the downside, of course,
that it will bring the problem to a head quickly.
On the other hand, it is in the community's best interest for us all
to figure out how to effectively solve this problem rather than simply
self destructing because of the problem.
We *have to* figure out how to fill a repository with the "15,000
debian things" without killing the projects, the ARCs, the Community
or OpenSolaris.
> I had thought that one was, at least, expected to call out
> dependencies explicitly and ensure that suitable information about
> those dependencies is available at the time the case is filed (e.g.,
Not at "time filed", but by the time the team comes for commitment.
> by reference to an umbrella case). Have the rules changed, or
This is a threadbare rationalization - Indiana is a Prototype, and
is not defined well enough to present the ARC with a real
architecture - or maybe they have such an architecture, but they
are so busy implementing it that they don't have time to tell anyone
about it. Since they are not integrating it into any consolidation
(ON, SFW, X, JDS...), they can get away with this fiction.
There is a double standard here, but it isn't what you think. Distros
like Nexenta, Belinix and Schillix did exactly what ips/pkg has done,
without any attempt at ARC interaction or exposure, and nobody thought
twice about things. But, when *we* attempt to do the same thing, we
get our shorts tied up in knots. Go Figure.
-John
