On Jul 29, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Al Hopper wrote:
That's what I thought originally, but a lot of the posts I have seen
are emphasizing the business decisions made by an ARC rather than
the technical review.
Where do you see this?
When a choice is made to work on a major branch or not.
I don't see it?
The ARC process described by John Plocher spends half of its effort
on discussion of business priorities and prior business agreements.
Those aren't technical decisions that are applicable to an open
community, and Sun is certainly aware of that. The question was how
much of the ARC process does apply to the OpenSolaris-wide community.
The ARC review process is fundamentally a technical review done by
engineers who have a technical "investment" in the process.
No, architecture reviews are fundamentally architectural in nature,
and a substantial aspect of architecture is not technical at all
but rather has to do with things like product lines, customer
agreements, corporate promises, etc. That's all normal for a
company doing product development. What isn't normal is assuming
that those constraints should apply to the entire open source
project, including all other participants.
I don't want to repeat the discussion we just had all over again.
I think my position is pretty clear from what I have written
already.
....Roy
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