I'm responding to the initial case here as I don't want this to be seen as an indictment on anyone who has participated in this "discussion" to this point. I've also taken the case out of the subject so this mail does not form part of the case log.
Can I suggest that unless you have something constructive to add, that will further this case to a resolution acceptable to all parties, that you refrain from entering in to the discussion. Once one weeds out the noise, it can be seen that AlanC, Garrett, Roland and Glenn are actively trying to resolve Garett's concern. Threats of "I will no longer contribute to this project" are not helpful to this process, nor are ill-informed criticisms of the ARC process. If you wish to find out what the ARCs actually do, you should have a read of the Community page at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/ You will also find there how *you* can participate in this process if you so desire. From my time interning with PSARC, it has been my experience that the ARC is a facilitator to having projects integrate in a consistent way with the existing codebase. Given the overview of all projects integrating, they have also quite often made suggestions of projects that a project team should talk with because of overlap that the project team were previously unaware of. As I stated in an earlier response, I can't think of the last time that the ARCs were responsible for killing a project, if indeed they ever were. Now if we let those folks who wish to discuss this constructively do so, we might actually get somewhere that will make everyone happy! Regards, Alan Hargreaves -- Alan Hargreaves - http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta Staff Engineer (Kernel/VOSJEC/Performance) Asia Pacific/Emerging Markets Sun Microsystems
