Sebastien Roy wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> John Plocher wrote:
>>> A CG creates a new Project:
>>> This causes an Umbrella 1-pager to be filed with the ARC;
>>> it simply says "here is the stuff we are working on - more
>>> to come". This is the Heads Up.
>>
>> When a new project is created, mail is sent to the project-announce
>> alias. Feel free to do whatever magic you want to filter that into
>> the ARC system.
>
> I don't see a correlation between an OpenSolaris project and software
> architecture. An OpenSolaris project doesn't have to be about software
> engineering necessarily. How do we review the architecture of the
> various OpenSolaris User Group projects, for example?
>
> I think there needs to be some manual step by the part of a human that
> signals intent to implement a project that will eventually require
> software architectural review.
Of course, but John had already volunteered to do that earlier in the
thread:
> IMHO, it is a bug that the CG & Project creation process is completely
> disconnected from the ARC - it is easier for the ARC to ignore projects
> that obviously have no architectural connections (user groups, portals...)
> than it is to pick up the pieces of chaos that arise when projects get to
> completion without any ARC interactions at all...
I was just pointing out he can do what he wants right now, without anyone
else changing what they do. Of course, given the free-form format of the
project-announce mails, he'll probably be manually parsing them unless he
convinces Eric and team to start using a parseable format.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
