Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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 > > One word - circular.
- jek3
