W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >>> [There is a pending ARC case to make CUPS the >>> default] >>> >>> The ARC has been approved. Otherwise, we wouldn't have committed to a build no.
>> So the ARC "Lords" are at it again! >> > > I have been refraining to say the following for a long while: > > I have noticed that in at least a couple of cases where the requests were > originated by Sun's developers in Beijing and the issues were primarily > local, but the requests were ridiculed by some of the ARC Lords who > ostensibly had ZERO knowledge of the issues involved and who yet still > managed to exercise their Lordism and make a bunch of (to me) extremely > idiotic comments. > To me it is a balancing acts. I am not an ARC member, though I have gone through a number of ARC cases in the past. I have good experiences and poor experiences in the past. Poor experiences were more due to unfamiliarity with the processes and culture of the ARC, when I as submitter was questioned about certain design/interfaces may have stuck in a knot because we have no control over it, be it source code were taken from OOS or someone else have implemented it. There is always a way out to progress, ARC really won't try to stop something completely unless it is going to cause multiple breakages on many part of the system. Having a experienced ARC sponsor that you know how he works is really KEY. On the good side of the rigor process, Solaris has been able to provide for ABI compatibility across many releases. While ARC process is hard, having a bunch of experience engineers to review your work is really on the plus side. Of course, not all ARC has all experts for all areas. All ARC members are volunteers, they have other roles to play in their respective organization too. I can't comment on your specific case. -Ghee
