Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:59:42PM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> We'll have to agree to disagree. Debating this further on this list is
>> not productive though; the case is withdrawn. (And never was the case
>> denied, merely "derailed". Your reactions to derailing could be seen as
>> overreacting, actually.) Please either drop PSARC, or drop the
>> conversation. I'm more than happy to debate it *off* of the main PSARC
>> alias.
>>
>
> I understand what de-railing means. I'm reacting mostly to the
> withdrawal of the case. But also, when it comes to FOSS, the ARC can't
> be de-railing too often, else the process will be unbearable, which is
> partly why I asked if it wouldn't be better if all non-core FOSS always
> went through /contrib first: partly because the ARC would be less
> relevant to FOSS then, partly because the i-teams would get instant
> gratification, partly because it'd give the potentially controversial
> cases time to soak.
>
I agree that it makes more sense for things that really are fundamental
portions of the OS to be integrated into /contrib first, and maybe even
only.
I'm not a huge fan of the idea that we *have* to integrate everything
under the sun in /release, if only because the process of doing so, and
supporting the bits post integration, can quickly become daunting.
- Garrett
