Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Because, otherwise, if you don't provide a forum for them to get ARC
> input early, then they won't get it.
There's a well honored tradition at Sun of asking individual ARC members
or people with much ARC case sponsoring experience for advice before filing
cases for formal review. There's nothing to stop projects which don't want
open review before a certain point from continuing to do so, even going to Sun's
existing closed ARCs for advice, knowing that many of the members are the same
(at least for now) as the OpenSolaris ARC community, or to whatever subset of
the OpenSolaris ARC was covered by whatever NDA is restricting this materials,
but nothing would be binding for OpenSolaris integration until they go to the
OpenSolaris ARC. (But nothing from inception review is typically binding
either, as the ARC can change its mind at commitment due to new information,
changes in ARC membership, things they've learned from other cases in the
meantime, or even just how much caffeinated beverages are available to the
ARC members at review time.)
As noted in the quoted Constitutional bits elsewhere in this thread, the
current OpenSolaris contributors already voted to disallow making decisions
behind closed doors - we can't undo that without having them all vote on a new
constitutional amendment.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
