On 20-Jan-08, at 12:53 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > As part of encouraging the sustained growth and success of > community-based distributions, it is highly desirable that a new > project oriented towards ON Community Group developers be created. > This new project would maintain a branch of the main ON tree that > integrates patches from community developers on a rapid basis as they > are approved for inclusion. It will build the resulting source tree on > frequent basis (to be determined, with the initial goal being weekly). > This will allow community developers to quickly see and test the > results of their contributions while encouraging innovation and > providing an easy method for developers to obtain feedback from other > community members.
This paragraph sounds suspiciously like a fork of ON to me. perhaps Shawn would like to clarify; If patches are rapidly included, sidestepping sponsorship ( which I am assuming Shawn means ), would that not also sidestep ARC and code review ? What then if ARC derails the case, or a show-stopper bug is found ? Will the patches be rapidly removed ? What if a project under the CG's scope has come to depend on the functionality. The choices are to keep the patch in the tree ( violating ARC ), or to remove it ( and possibly damage some project ).
