On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 14:38, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > 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.
ARC is all about the technical architecture and almost always doesn't get involved in business processes - we take it into account but it isn't our charter to make decisions based on business input alone our key is the technical architecture of the "system" as a whole. > 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. Thats not really an ARC issue thats a project team issue, each project team creates there own gate (branch I guess in your terminology), sometimes project teams need to sync between each others gates (for example during Solaris 10 development the main on10 gate was moving forward but there was cross gate syncing between the project gates for DTrace, Zones and the Cryptographic Framework and SMF). However everything in the main gate (eg ONNV) is reviewed and release quality at all times - this is what you see in Solaris Express today. Of course with OpenSolaris this could be up for review so it is just what we do today, that we believe should be able to work for the greater Internet connected developer community in the future. > BTW, could someone please describe how many ARCs currently exist > over the scope of Solaris? One. There is only one ARC, there are sub committees of the ARC and when Sun people write ARCs they mean these sub committees. Currently we have: FWARC, PSARC, LSARC, WSARC: FWARC - Firmware PSARC - Platform Services LSARC - Layered Software WSARC - Web Services. For the most part WSARC doesn't review stuff you see today in OpenSolaris but is mostly about the stuff in JES - but then Application Server and parts of Access Manager are open source under the CDDL license too. PSARC is where almost all of the currently visible bits of OpenSolaris are reviewed, ie mainly core OS and networking things. LSARC is where most of GNOME/StarOffice/Mozilla level things are reviewed. SNARC is currently in hibernation, but has been used to review hardware platform stuff particularly systems as a whole and networking hardware: mostly not relevant for OpenSolaris even if it was currently active. However we often have members from the various sub committees cross over to assist in the review of other projects - some times for no other reason than personal interest. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
