John Plocher wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>
>> It's silly to expect people to ask about something unless they know
>> what to ask about. How would I have known to ask about ips unless I
>> knew ips existed? Should I continually email all Sun aliases and ask
>> "do you have any unannounced projects you can share information
>> about"?
>
> The Sun Solaris development process starts with a project proposal
> being submitted - and results in the "immediate" creation of an
> ARC project placeholder, entry into the "project database" and
> broadcast dissemination of the announcement. No approvals or
> endorsements of any type required - simply "if you want to do
> something, here is how you start", tied into "if you want to
> know what is happening, here's how to tune in".
>
> I don't know how to "fix" this out in OS.o-land.
But we don't know how to fix it inside Sun either, where the project
proposal is often not submitted to the ARC database until after the
project is well underway. (For instance, the IPS project hasn't done
this yet either.) I can sympathize very much with Alan B in the UK -
I know even when our team was in San Jose instead of MPK we were much
more disconnected from the flow of things happening in lunchrooms and
hallways. Opening up to the world outside of Sun is much the same
challenge we've had with scaling to globally-distributed teams, and
we've still got some ways to improve there.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
