On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:14:09AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Mark J. Nelson wrote: > >If you do not allow closed review, you are practically begging for teams > >to circumvent the process in order to keep information private. > > > >Essentially, the teams in question have two legitimate goals: get > >effective, timely review; and keep proprietary information private. If > >your process makes those goals mutually exclusive, and the second is > >mandated by contract (or patent law or whatever), then your process is > >effectively denying the first goal. > > If the information is contractually or legally obligated to remain private, > how is the code allowed to go into OpenSolaris? > > Remember - this only specified open reviews as required for OpenSolaris - > Sun is free to have whatever closed reviews it wants for things that are > exclusively in /usr/closed (or the similar closed portions of other > consolidations) or for things only in the Solaris fork of OpenSolaris.
I agree, but if we can have open ARC reviews of closed source that would help: the source might always be opened later, presenting OpenSolaris with a fait accompli.
