Ben Rockwood wrote: > Good or bad. Right or wrong. For better or worse. OPEN. Thats what > transparency is, and thats what this board must be.
We run into this in the ARC world from time to time - and have figured out how to deal with it in a reasonable manner. The norm is to have everything exposed to all of engineering* (mail archives, interest list subscriptions, case materials...), but we do realize that exceptional cases arise where this openness is not appropriate. In those (very rare) cases, we make 1-off special efforts to protect the confidential information by bypassing the aliases, redacting the materials, and not archiving the sensitive bits. The important bit is that there *is* no normal mechanism for the ARCs to have a truly private/secret discussion, so each such discussion is handled as an exception - with knowledge up front that we are intentionally bypassing our community's transparency expectations. (When I say very rare, I mean 1 or 2 out of a thousand cases or so...) -John [*] Yeah, the irony here is that the ARCs still review proprietary projects within Sun that are not exposed to the OS.o world... Sigh :-)
