Bart Smaalders wrote: > John Plocher wrote: >> Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>> This should be in a document tree that is referenced by this 20Q. >> >> Like the ARC Policy and Best Practices repository? >> >> Maybe an explicit reference would be good: "Please provide detailed >> rationale for any ARC Policies and/or BPs you don't adhere to". >> >> >> -John > > So where are all the ARC policies and BP clearly spelled out, such > that someone could evaluate their project's compliance?
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/ and http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/bestpractices/ > > Telling someone to read the last 17 years of ARC cases before submitting > a case is not very practical, and does nothing to simplify ARC > processes. Attempting to use the Socratic method to tease out potential > areas of non-compliance via the 20q obviously doesn't work very > well either. I agree, which is why we have put some effort into asking teams that produce systems that generate these rules and requirements to write them up in a form that is more easily usable. > > If the ARC(s) were to modify their procedures such that all policies > had to be enumerated in a single living & versioned document, We've had the policy and bp repository for almost a decade now... -John
