On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:33 PM, John Plocher <john.ploc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Dave Johnson > <dave.johnson.inqu...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> This is how Oracle treats open communities and projects. Will OGB intervene? > > While I have not been following this soap opera in excruciating > detail, my reading of the ARC discussions was that the ksh-93 project > to replace existing GNU utilities with ksh-wrapper AST based versions > that were not completely compatible and that would not track future > evolution of the GNU utilities was withdrawn for good architectural > reasons. Since the ARC case was not approved, it follows that repo > putback access for that part of the project would also be withheld - a > standard ON procedural action that applies to everyone: No approved > ARC case, no putback. > > To answer your question: Will the OGB intervene? The constitution > says (note the first sentence): > > ==== > 3.1 Disputes > > It is expected and encouraged that groups will resolve disputes by > themselves according to their documented decision-making procedures. > If a dispute can not be resolved within a group or it spreads between > groups, then the Governing Board may choose to intervene. The Board > will consider disputes on a case-by-case basis and may decline to > intervene. If the Board chooses to intervene, it will resolve the > issue at its absolute discretion with no possibility of appeal. Its > resolution will be binding on all parties. > ==== > > Given this understanding (which may be flawed, but your posts do > nothing to show that it is), this all smells like an overly emotional > early Monday morning troll; I see no reason for the OGB to get > involved. > > -John
It appears too few of you all here are regular readers or subscribers of ksh93-integration-discuss. Then read first (last 2 months) before prematurely labeling somebody an evil Monday-morning-troll. %martin _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
