> >Which is exactly how things had been working in practise inside Sun.
>
> That's what I thought originally, but a lot of the posts I have seen
> are emphasizing the business decisions made by an ARC rather than
> the technical review.
>
> The only real difference with OpenSolaris ARCs should be that there
> is always a branch that has no interface constraints because that is
> the branch where new interfaces are created.
For an operating system, the constraints of existing interfaces are a
_technical_ problem, _not_ just a business problem. New interfaces
obviously don't have these constraints, which is precisely why they must
be developed so carefully -- today's new interface is tomorrow's constraint.
- Bryan
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Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Development. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc
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