This would also be a good time to re-examine the ARC process and decide what parts can be streamlined for open development.
I'm in favor of architectural review; however, I have some concern that we'll just export Sun's existing business processes. Instead, we should consider refactoring them to more appropriately address the needs of the community and our changes in the OpenSolaris development model. -j On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:29:28PM -0700, 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. > > 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.) > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
