John Plocher wrote: > 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 >
Then why doesn't the 20q read: Do you comply w/ the following documents? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
