On Jan 13, 2008 7:52 AM, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > 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.
I don't agree and neither did ARC. > > 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. More than four people give input into the process though. The ARC members rely on others to provide useful input because they know they don't have experience in all areas. Just as OGB members may not have experience in all areas of our community, that doesn't impair their ability to make decisions for the entire community based on the community's input. > 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. I think you are unfairly characterizing the ARC. Overwhelmingly, people believe that Solaris has excellent technical characteristics. Many of those are the result of the ARC process. Sorry Joerg, but I just can't agree with you. Your evaluation of the ARC's actions doesn't fit with the rest of the community from my perspective. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
