Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>
> >I don't like that a few unrelated people may harm other peoples projects.
>
> The purpose of the ARC is to prevent unrelated projects from harming
> one another and OpenSolaris/Solaris.
We recently had examples where a single project did introduce incompatible
extensions that caused harm to the whole.
> Giving any one person veto power is very wrong; it does allow for exactly
> that thing you oppose. The ARC only approves projects and gives gentle
> nudges to the rudder. It rarely, if ever, denies projects. So in effect,
> the authority to veto the ARC would be the authority to veto projects.
If only 4 people decide in the current ARC, this is obviously a problem as
these people cannot have expert knowledge in all needed areas.
If a veto from a knowledgeable person does not even result in a discussion
of people with the needed special skills, something is wrong.
This is no longer "Sun Solaris" but OpenSolaris and we need to take care of the
long term effects on the whole OpenSolaris and not just about short term
commercial interests for a single project. We even had an example where someone
did hide the complete results by splitting the complete case into many small
chungs that may look less harmfull then the whole. A working ARC of course
would have redrawn previus decisions after this has been revealed.
J?rg
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