Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
Umpf... we really need a mailinglist...
Excellent; your project request is seconded. You should hear from the
opensolaris.org staff within a few days. They will get your project
infrastructure created.
Generic question, posed to stimulate discussion:
How does/should this discussion forum/Project relate to the ARC
community?
Background:
From the ARC perspective, Projects exist to support the prototyping
and development of new features and changes to OpenSolaris. That
is, one would:
Create a Project to add a feature or make some change
Explore and discuss the goals of the project
Prototype and prove concepts
Submit a spec to the ARC community for approval
Implement for real
Integrate result into a community such as OpenSolaris.ON
Project concludes and is dissolved or reincarnates into
a follow up project
I'm looking for mechanisms by which the ARC community can
effectively get/be involved in the review of project milestones:
Concept/Creation:
The proposal to create a Project. Causes
<something> to happen that results in
a Project. The process of creating a Project
includes the initial notification to the ARC
community that a new project has been created.
It may be worth looking at the ARC's
one-pager template when crafting such proposals,
though the current version is a bit heavyweight
to be used as-is:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/handbook/onepager/
Plan/Inception:
The next step in the evolution of a proposal
into an initial spec. An opportunity for the
ARC community to provide timely architectural
feedback to the project so that it can develop
a higher quality/lower risk project spec.
Plan/Commitment:
The ARC Community reviews, archives and approves
the project's architectural specs and completion
criteria.
Development/Fasttracks:
As development progresses, there needs to be an
easy way to update the approved specs to match
changing requirements.
Delivery/Integration: Audit that the Project's deliverables
match the ARC approved specs as a precondition for
integration.
Retire/Disband:
The project concludes (for whatever reason) and is
no longer "on the radar" for OpenSolaris.
-John
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