Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
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>> Individually, or acting in concern, the small body of ARC members (as
>> few as 4, I believe, makes a quorum) can choose to derail or reject a
>> project (though in principle rejections rarely happen, and are usually
>> accompanied by quite a lot of justification in e-mail and opinions as to
>> why a project is rejected. From a pure numbers standpoint the project
>> team may have a "majority" in that it is made of 10-20 people or more.
>>
>
> Please don't tar "derail" and "reject" with the same brush.
>
I'm sorry. I guess I misunderstood that everyone by now understood the
difference. derailing occurs more frequently than rejecting, but even
derailing is infrequent.
> Derailing can be done by an individual ARC member and only means that
> the case is non-obvious or non-controversial or even that someone wants
> to make sure an "opinion" is written to summarize an important part of the
> ARC discussion.
>
> Derailing is just switching the points (or pointing the switches) to the
> longer variant of the development process.
>
Right.
>
>> Perhaps you feel that that there should be an appeals process whereby a
>> project could appeal a decision to the larger engineering membership at
>> large. I'm not sure how such an appeals would work. But you could
>> draft something up as a strawman if that is what you want,. and present
>> it to OGB or one of the impacted communities for a formal vote.
>>
>
> Right, just as there is one inside Sun where "the business" can override
> decisions. Clearly there can be different such bodies for OpenSolaris
> and a particular distribution (a distribution can always "fork")
>
Sure.
-- Garrett
> Casper
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