John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > An ARC needs to work in a way that makes it accepted by all communities.
>
>
> If the ARC was made up of core contributers from each of code producing
> communities (or consolidations or ...), such that the ARC was a
> common gathering place for the intersection of these cross-community
> issues, then the ARC would be the place to work out any differences.
> This leads directly to ARC decisions that are respected and honored by
> all, because the decisions were made by all.
>
> If you instead balkanize things by saying sub-communities can selectively
> veto ARC decisions if they don't like them or add constraints without
> associated participation and negotiation, the process quickly becomes
> meaningless.
I don't like that a few unrelated people may harm other peoples projects.
Any ARC only gets my approval in case it does not allow a few people to
dominate others. This is unfortunately currently the case, as there is no
way to veto against decisions that harm OpenSolaris in favor of sub-projects.
...it seems that you missunderstand the term "balcanizing".
J?rg
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