Shawn Walker wrote: > ARC does not apply to OpenSolaris; see recent postings by Roy Fielding.
> No. The primary point of the initial project that was proposed (only > as a reference point, again) is to create a place for developers to > innovate and experiment with a very low barrier to entry. Developers > will be encouraged to integrate into the main ON gate or to relevant > projects at a later date, but will not be bound by whatever perceived > restrictions there are today while they experiment. You imply that somehow thinking about the architectural scope and impact of a project can be deferred until well after the coding has been completed. To me, this shows either a misunderstanding of software development best practices, a naivet? about the costs of maintaining a forked source branch or a willful disregard for the core values of the OpenSolaris meta-community - any one of which is reason enough for me to weigh in with a "less than zero" vote. Your assertion that ARC does not apply to OS.o is the key thing that pushes me to respond with a strong -1; rather than bypassing the ARC, we should be figuring out how to fix the bug that left out the ARC from the constitution when it was drafted (and yes, Roy, it is a bug, not a feature) So: -1 on this proposal -John
