> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Neal Pollack > <Neal.Pollack at sun.com> wrote: > > If "welcome here" is PSARC > > No, it is the OpenSolaris ARC community alias, which > PSARC-ext feeds into. > > I don't really care what goes on inside the > proprietary PSARC at sun.com > as it reviews closed cases - as long as the results > of those closed > cases don't get pushed out into the OpenSolaris > community's source > repositories. > > The metric is pretty clear - for stuff to go into the > community's open > repos, the ARC reviews for that stuff must also be > open. > > Otherwise, I'm sure there are a host of changes that > Joerg (the > defacto Schillix ARC chair), Moinak (...Belenix ARC > Chair), and the > rest of the *other* distro leaders would *LOVE* to > put back into ON > and friends... > > What's good for the goose (Oracle's OpenSolaris > distro) has to be good > for the gander (the other distros) as well... > > -John
Worthy as they are, how many developers are the alternative distros funding? Or to be really evil about it, what's the difference between centralized control of the sort: "Linus said, 'not only no, but h___ no' " vs the sort "this is a closed ARC case"? Either way, you can maintain private patches (or fork) if you like... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org