On Jan 28, 2008 12:47 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > Please explain to me how an OpenSolaris contributor can: > > > > 1) start a project > > > > 2) develop it > > > > 3) go to arc, etc. when they feel it is appropriate > > > > 4) integrate > > > > If step #3 is required before they perform #1 and #2, then we have a > > problem. > > > > I have no problem with #3 being required before #4. > > By doing just that - that is exactly the way things have always > worked, both inside Sun, and at OpenSolaris. We encourage them to > come to ARC earlier, rather than later, so they don't spend too much > time implementing things that ARC suggests they change or that ARC > points out someone else is already doing - but the only actual hard > requirement is that it happen before integration.
So, if a developer decides to release a prototype of that project before they ever do #4 (publicly), so they can get appropriate feedback and make further changes, they are still not required to do #3? Maybe the better question to ask is whether #3 is ever required before #4... Thanks, -- 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
