On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 13:24 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > I agree, but if we can have open ARC reviews of closed source that would > help: the source might always be opened later, presenting OpenSolaris > with a fait accompli.
Within the current development process, this is a question for the c-team or its open-consolidation equivalent/successor. Open code review before something is moved from the metaphorical usr/closed to the metaphorical usr/src seems like a good idea. (Clearly that has to happen *after* the code is cleared for release by its developer). ARC review is not code review, and projects rarely even tell the ARC where their work-in-progress source code can be found; ARC reviews rarely look at source code, with the exception of things like header files defining the interface where code excerpts are the most efficient way to specify the interface. - Bill