W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Hi Wayne,
I know you are very passionate about China and love to OpenSolaris playing a big part there and that is my response to your e-mail have that in mind. For the desktop, ARC cases are generally gone through LSARC (Layered Software ARC). We have good ARC members represented here. Most (if not all) of the engineers have good exposure to ARC experiences because every engineers take turn to be part of the ARCing team every release of GNOME. We have been doing this since 2.10, so that is 10 releases of GNOME (with 3-4 engineers in the ARCing team), there are at least 30 engineers have gone through that process. On top, each engineer also has their own component to go through. Of course, what I observed also, there are very few people outside the US time zone got to become a full ARC members. (There are interns and full ARC). Any interested competent engineers can request to become an intern for as long the the full ARC member is willing to take him/her on board. To become a full ARC member though required the interns to support 3 Full ARC review with the full arc member. That is actually a non-trivial tasks and given the time zone differences, it is big commitment to make it happen. I don't know of the particular ARC case you mentioned. However, I may suggest is that if the particular component is desktop related. One can send around an e-mail here asking for some one who are familiar to the desktop technologies to see if they are willing to sponsor the case in the future. I know some of us are passionate about ARCing ;), /me looking at Brian C. -Ghee > Hi Ghee, > > Thanks for getting back to me. I would not have made such a super-sized fuss > had I known that the default printing system is going to switch to CUPS in > the next build. But then this would have deprived me the opportunity of > shedding the frustrations that I have piled up in the past four years of > using OpenSolaris. (I always tried to stick to the default system as much as > possible, as this will be the system wannabes OpenSolaris will be > experiencing.) > > Regarding my comments about ARC, I admit, absolutely, that I only have very > very limited exposure, and my perceptions are unfortunately--and perhaps > unfairly--tainted by my experience as a part-time civil rights lawyer in the > 80's. I understand that the ARC process provides the benefits of having > experienced developers guiding the direction of OpenSolaris. However, since > this thread is about OpenSolaris desktops, I was wondering how many of our > ARC members have extensive desktop experience (especially that related to > office/business desktop use)? > > OTOH, as I always believe that China should be OpenSolaris' biggest potential > market, I am also wondering how many of our ARC members understand (or > actually care about) their local issues, customs of computer usage, etc., > etc. Of course this is my own problem and I am guilty of expressing > unreasonable expectations. But I stand by my comment that in the couple of > cases that I happened to have witnessed, certain ARC member(s) definitely > stepped out of the line, considering their complete lack of pertinent > knowledge. > > (ARC was mentioned b/c I thought it was the reason behind the delay. This is > very likely an incorrect assessment, but I believe ARC probably should be > more actively, or more progressively, push for changes that are needed. > Well, so much for this thought.) >
