On Jan 28, 2008 12:59 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker writes: > > On Jan 28, 2008 12:47 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> > > wrote: > > > By doing just that - that is exactly the way things have always > > > worked, both inside Sun, and at OpenSolaris. We encourage them to > > > come to ARC earlier, rather than later, so they don't spend too much > > > time implementing things that ARC suggests they change or that ARC > > > points out someone else is already doing - but the only actual hard > > > requirement is that it happen before integration. > > > > So, if a developer decides to release a prototype of that project > > before they ever do #4 (publicly), so they can get appropriate > > feedback and make further changes, they are still not required to do > > #3? > > They are still required to do #3 (the ARC review) before #4 (the > integration), no matter how they decide to run alpha tests, float > trial balloons, or otherwise play around in their own sandboxes. > > There's admittedly a fuzzy line here, and one we don't understand > well. Historically, "alpha tests" have had no status at all. They're > not products, they're not integrated with anything or supported > anywhere. What happens if a community group or project decides to > start a never-ending "alpha" that in fact emulates a release, just > under different terms? If that's the question, then I don't have an > answer for that.
That would be part of the question, yes. However, one could say that unless they are choosing to integrate into something, they don't have to follow integration rules. This would definitely be something I would expect to be addressed in Mr. Plocher's ARC proposal. > > Maybe the better question to ask is whether #3 is ever required before #4... > > Always, at least for ON. Sorry, I worded that rather poorly. What I meant was, to design, or develop, or do certain things (other than integration) is ARC ever required? Thanks! -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
