Kyle McDonald writes: > Dave Miner wrote: > > Anything you see in SXCE right now is similarly subject to change, I > > just have to run appropriate ARC cases. We've just done you a favor > > already and told you that certain technologies in it are a dead end > > before that process starts, and you have an unprecedented (for this > > community) opportunity to start using their replacements as soon as > > they're even remotely functional. > Ok. Maybe I was mistaken. I thought the ARC has the capability to reject > or change things submitted to it (not that it will - I'm only looking > forward to hearing the discussions that take place and the opinions of > the memebers.)
Of course it does. What makes you suggest that it does not? I'm confused about what you're trying to get at here. Is it the release-but-not-a-release nature of the "OpenSolaris distribution" or something else? Technically, what happens is that the ARC reviews a project, and, for the approval case, determines a (possibly empty) set of changes that must be made in order to get approval. Those are the TCRs. We then vote on the proposal as amended by the TCRs. If the ARC denies a case, then we also issue a list of TCRs. Those are the changes that would have to be made (necessary, not sufficient) in order to get approval. The distinction is that for approval, the TCRs are technically specific and clear. For denial, they can be much broader and might not be complete. The ARC actually can't stop anyone from shipping anything they want to, nor does it jump in and review something before the project team asks to have it reviewed. It just approves or denies cases. It's in the hands of distribution constructors and consolidation owners to determine what they're going to do. (Within Sun, there's a broad rule saying that all engineering products must undergo architectural review before being delivered.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
