> James Dickens wrote: > > this isn't about grunt work, its about who controls > the gate, and sun > > endorsing this person and his project above the > rest of the others. > > This sounds more like a "glossary cache miss" than > evidence of a conspiracy. > > The role of a gatekeeper is very different in the > FOSS and Sun worlds, > primarily because Sun's ARC/development process. > > In the FOSS world, the gatekeeper is usually[1] one > of the key maintainers, > and their role is to make decisions about the > evolution of the component. > Many times, those decisions are in the form of > allowing or disallowing > certain changes/patches/commits based on the > gatekeeper's own technical > or ideological desires. > > This is part of being a gatekeeper at Sun, but with a > twist. Their core > responsibility is to make sure that all proposed > changes have been accepted, > but the gatekeeper him/herself is not the one that > decides what is acceptable. > Instead, it is the community, in the forms of "a > business or strategy group" > and "a technical or architectural group". The > gatekeeper simply checks that > both types of approval have been given BEFORE the > changes are allowed to be > integrated. > > How might this play out in the OpenSolaris community? > My take: > > The part of the community responsible for steering > ing OpenSolaris answers > the "do we want it?" question (i.e., the CAB sets > ets a governance process > which in turn sets the boundaries and values used > sed to come up with the > answer for any particular (proposal, community) > ty) tuple...) > > The ARC part of the community answers the "is this > his the right way to > architect this change?" question. > > If the community response is "yes we want it and > and yes it is done in the > right way", then and only then would the > the gatekeeper allow the change to > be integrated. > > In this definition, the gatekeeper is more of a > "clerk" than an "executive". >
Confusing. If your definitions are correct shouldn't the handoff of the project go to the "executive"? ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
