Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote:
> I've been known to misread or misunderstand statements before. So, let me
> ask directly...
>
> Roy, John,... Do you believe that any community delivering code is
> required
> to interact with the ARC, and to adhere to the decisions of the ARC
> (delta
> override cases).
If the ARC is intended to control the overall funtionality and interfaces from
Solaris, communities would need to interact with the ARC. But then, a
sub-community needs to be able to veto against othe people's proposals that
would harm the interfaces of this sub-community.
If there is no veto, ARC decisions could harm Solaris interfaces. I see no
benefit in such an ARC....
An ARC needs to work in a way that makes it accepted by all communities.
If we are interested in binary compatibility between different OpenSolaris
based distributions, we cannot allow one entitiy to harm another one.
If some people ignore the needs from other parts of the community, we will
end up with many incompatible distributions.
Conclusion:
The ARC is accepted if the ARC itself accepts the constraints of all
sub-communities.
J?rg
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