* Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> [2007-06-05 14:14]: > On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 14:01 -0700, johansen-osdev at sun.com wrote: > > 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. > > I think this needs to be decoupled from a policy requiring open review > under currently existing processes. An open-review policy implemented > and enforced by existing ARCs and c-teams could go into effect almost > immediately; arguments about how to tweak the process could take months > or years to converge.
No process has made it out without some examination and adjustment (and the ARC process has been adjusting already). It would be nice to build in a period of declared length for this change as well. - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
