Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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.
Just to clarify, for example, would PSARC be one such committee established by the OpenSolaris Architecture Community. Does PSARC operate openly already? > 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. One week seems like rather short notice. Does this mean that any prior approved ARC cases referencing closed code are thus no longer valid? > 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, *cheer* > 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.) > cheers, steve -- stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development
