[See also:
www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/arc-faq/arc-alias-usage/
-John]
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What is the OpenSolaris-ARC alias for?
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Anyone involved or interested in the architectural evolution of OpenSolaris
is expected to subscribe to the OpenSolaris-ARC alias. As a transition aid
as we migrate from "closed Sun ARCs" to "open Community ARCs", the PSARC-EXT
alias is used to route messages to both the OpenSolaris-ARC alias and Sun's
internal PSARC infrastructure. For the time being, all OpenSolaris related
ARC review mail should be sent to the PSARC-EXT alias.
The rest of this message treats both of these aliases as if they were the same.
These aliases are intended to be the venue for the formal architectural review
of Architectural Proposals submitted by various OpenSolaris Projects. Consider
the traffic to be a continuing, semi-formal meeting, where the agenda is the
discussion and approval of specific project proposals.
Discussions are expected to focus on specific proposals; the proposals
themselves
are expected to be created within the various Community Groups, usually on their
Project sub-aliases.
Note that I mention "REVIEW" several times. This is an intentional limitation
of scope for these aliases - they are not the right place for the /invention/
of project architecture, design discussions, code reviews, process improvement
suggestions, bug reports or project implementation debates; those discussions
belong elsewhere:
Project architecture invention, design and implementation discussions
belong on the project's own aliases - where, it is hoped, interested
ARC Community Core Contributers are also subscribed and involved.
Bug reports go into the bug tracking system and are discussed in the
relevant Project and CG forums
Code reviews belong on cr.opensolaris and in the project specific
lists
ARC Process discussions belong on the arc-discuss alias
While it is not unusual to have ARC alias architectural review discussions
Cc'd to the Project aliases, it is generally undesirable to have the ARC
aliases Cc'd on general Project alias discussions.
-John
