Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> ...
Looks good! Thanks for taking the lead on this.
> The OGB accepts as historical precedence any decisions of the Sun SAC
> that were made before June 14, 2007
Nit: rather than a specific date at this point in time, it should
be instead "as of the date of this policy's ratification" or somesuch...
> including case opinions, best
> practices and policies, if, and only if, they are published openly in
> the Architecture community web pages.
I take this to mean that decisions reached before the above date that are
currently not published due to resource limitations could still be
published in the future when resources are available to do the publishing
work, and would still be accepted. Is this what you had in mind?
> 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.
[from a Sun internal perspective]
There needs to be some discussion about how "new hardware" cases should
be handled to allow for both "open review" as well as "avoid pre-announcing
details of new products and thereby losing market and competitive advantages".
Some ideas:
they should be "closed until ARC review"...
they should be "closed until integration"...
they should be "closed until some other point in time"...
There is a grey area here - while it isn't OS.o's prerogative to tell Sun
how to do Sun's business, it certainly is fair to have OS.o dictate the
terms of how they will allow Sun (and others) to participate in OS.o's
world.
> 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.)
[again, internal to sun perspective]
This implies that, should Sun wish to have projects that target
Solaris (and /NOT/ OpenSolaris), they whould have to create & manage
their own gate and source repository for such things, because they could
no longer piggyback on the OS.o ON & JDS & SFW gates...
-John
