I think this is basically writing down what many of us believe to
be the case, but haven't explicitly put into writing yet, leading
to some confusion.
I propose the OGB issue a simple statement along these lines:
The OpenSolaris Governing Board hereby designates the OpenSolaris
Architecture Process and Tools community as the architectural review
board for OpenSolaris. All changes requiring architectural review
that are integrated into the master gate of an OpenSolaris consolidation
must be reviewed first by the OpenSolaris Architecture community or
a committee established by the OpenSolaris Architecture community that
meets openly as described in the OpenSolaris constitution.
The OGB accepts as historical precedence any decisions of the Sun SAC
that were made before June 14, 2007, including case opinions, best
practices and policies, if, and only if, they are published openly in
the Architecture community web pages.
Careful readers may note some current practices that would no longer be
allowed by this:
1) Cases affecting OpenSolaris consolidations being made behind closed
doors by the Sun ARC's would no longer be allowed. If the code is
going to be public, the ARC review needs to be too. Fortunately,
since the latest rev of the ARC tools were put into place that make
this easier to manage, many fewer cases are going to closed reviews
at PSARC, but all LSARC reviews (such as JDS & various management
tools) are still closed, and that would need to be fixed.
2) Projects targeting OpenSolaris consolidations would not be
allowed to have ARC reviews delayed or waived by Sun PAC committees
or policies. (Those could integrate into Sun's Solaris consolidations,
just not OpenSolaris.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
