Peter Tribble wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote: >> useradd(1M) is in the process of being redesigned and rewritten, so it >> wouldn't be a terrible time to send some input to that team. >> Unfortunately, I can't remember who is working on this. > > We really have to do a much better job of communicating projects > like this out to the community. Imagine if a community member had > spent time fixing bugs only to find their work wasted because there > was a secret project that renders their work obsolete. > > It's supposed to be *Open*Solaris; teams have a responsibility to > be open about what changes are planned, as well as having the > ability to take advantage of community expertise in design and > implementation.
"ARC early, ARC often." This is _exactly_ the sort of coordination problem that the ARC was originally designed to solve. It works best if project teams visit the ARC as early as possible in the process -- ideally, when all they have is a vague idea of what sort of work they'd like to do, and not much else. When everyone waits until the whole thing is "done" before going for the review, conflicts and wasted time are just inevitable. For what it's worth, these same sorts of problems happened prior to OpenSolaris, so this isn't specifically an "Open" issue. It's a general engineering problem. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
