On Jan 22, 2008 9:57 AM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > However, there is currently no constitutional requirement for ARC or > > any other process for code integration, nor to my knowledge, has the > > OGB delegated any such power to make such a requirement to any of the > > current communities. I am a subscriber to the external ARC mailing > > list and often follow it with great interest. > > The OGB has placed no restrictions beyond that of the constitution on > the processes communities choose to establish for code integration, and > I see nothing there that prohibits them from choosing to require architectural > review on their own. While I would still like to include ARC review > in a set of common practices used by multiple communities, I don't think > you can claim they have no power to do it on their own until then. >
I have not made any such claim. Indeed, as far as I know, each Community Group is free to establish certain guidelines surrounding contribution to their projects. I apologise if I somehow came across as implying that, as that was not my intention. However, I would like to point out that the ON Community Group, as an example, did not even have a mailing list until just recently (after years) and almost every single Community Group and Project hosted on OpenSolaris.org has not formally established any requirements for contributions. If the claim was made that the ON Community Group has done that; I would say that it has done so in violation of the constitution, since such a requirement would have required an open discussion which would have been impossible given that Community Group's lack of a forum (discussion list). As such, I contend that ARC has not yet been established as being a formally required part of contributing to any Community Group as of yet. It is certainly possible that I have missed the public discussions for a Community Group where they have voted to adopt certain processes for contribution, and if so, I apologise. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
