Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:15:31PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
>
>> Nicolas Williams writes:
>>
>>> But any project team can setup their own internal architectural review.
>>> As long as they are required to do a de novo architectural review
>>> through the OpenSolaris ARC in order to integrate into an OpenSolaris
>>> consolidation that's just fine and dandy.
>>>
>> It does great violence to the ARC process to have completed projects
>> show up on the ARC doorstep marked, "hi! please approve me!"
>>
>
> I think you misunderstood what I meant.
>
> I'm not arguing that any project team should do this -- only that noone
> can stop them from trying, EXCEPT that the OpenSolaris ARC must have the
> authority to deny/issue TCRs.
>
> The project team might feel entitled to rubber-stamp approval because
> they are Sun-internal or MegaloCorp-internal (for a MegaloCorp with an
> OpenSolaris derivative), but I don't think the OpenSolaris ARC should,
> or would, do that! Certainly I hope it wouldn't.
>
This doesn't happen *internally* at Sun today. AFAIK, it never really
has (at least not in the last 7 or so years.) (Sometimes teams have
circumvented the ARC, but that's quite different than the ARCs giving
approval.)
-- Garrett
