Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:06:45AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> That's not what the project team decided to do.
>>
>
> Project teams do get to make such decisions today. But it's worth
> asking "why?" if asking causes them to re-think the matter.
>
>
>> The project team hasn't committed to supporting ntfsprogs for other
>> uses. While it would have been nice of them to do so, they didn't, and
>> I don't think its PSARC's role to require them to do so either.
>>
>
> If every i-team did this we'd end up with a truly ugly, unfriendly
> system, so at some point the ARC has to consider whether to let project
> teams get away with this.
>
> The ARC ought to at least raise the issue in the hopes of getting the
> i-team to reconsider, or, if nothing else, to document the rationale for
> choosing to hide away FOSS dependencies. The latter might be helpful to
> future i-teams working in the same area.
>
Agree on all points. The question was valid, and in this case it sounds
like the project team has agreed to change their plans. As long as its
simply ARC asking project teams for their rationale, and not *requiring*
project teams to do something their disinclined to do.
-- Garrett
