On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:18:48AM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote:
> >Another fair question: why aren't you a PSARC member?  :-)
> 
> Because as a heckler, you get to chime in on the cases you care about,
> and yet not end up writing opinions, or trying to come up to speed
> on things far outside your areas of interest; this also helps keep
> one's time commitment to a more reasonable level.

Indeed.

> One of the problems that PSARC has had is that those who are doing
> interesting work often found it difficult to justify the time
> commitment involved in active participation.  This would sometimes
> lead to having folks involved on PSARC who hadn't actually delivered
> a project involving substantial change to the system in many years.

The obvious solution to this is blow up the number of members so as to
spread the load.  That might not work for other reasons, it's worth
doing _something_ to keep the ARC function while addressing the above
problem.  Another solution would be to rotate members into and out of
the ARC, so that members don't get stuck with heavy ARC load for more
than, say, 1 year, sort of how gatekeeping used to be (you'd do your
stint as GK, and then go back to normal projects).

Even with OpenSolaris, which might change user expectations of interface
stability to match Linux user expectations of that, the ARC function is,
IMO, very important.  If it's not working out well now, we should look
at how to make it work well.

Nico
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