On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > The likelihood of a sound architectural decision being rejected > by the core contributors (almost all of whom are Sun engineers) > is quite small.
That's all arbitrary. The fact is that nothing substantial has been proposed by anyone, all of the meat has come from Sun. Yes, it's a good thing that Sun's engineers are still working on it, because the external community hasn't really come up with any type of sound architecture decision, AFAIK. > Allowing all of the core to vote is the only way > that outside contributors will become part of the process. Why so? Is voting currently that powerful? Currently it seems that voting has very little, if any apparent impact on any of the process. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group