nice! I'm especially hoping to see review process to happen on mailing lists. I think mail patch attachments would be ideal, so community people could reply-to-all and post their comments with no-time spent.
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 17:34 -0800, Stephen Harpster wrote: > After the constitution is ratified, and the OGB is in place, and all the > source is in Mercurial outside the firewall, that next "big" thing for > OpenSolaris will be for the communities (a la the constitution) to > figure out what the process is to becoming a contributor and under what > rules code may be checked in. > > It's all moving slower than I want, but it's moving. There's a lot of > infrastructure required to do all of this, and we're bumping into some > issues. (Ask Stephen Lau about the automounter sometime. :-)) But, > what you ask will happen. > > > > Erast Benson wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 15:40 -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > > >> >From the outside, this is how folks view what Sun is doing. They see some > >> >of > >> the things that Sun does and scratch their head. It's not as though Sun is > >> doing the wrong thing, they just don't communicate with the community very > >> well when they do many of these things, so the community is in the dark. > >> > > > > indeed, i don't know about others, but I feel that I do not see many > > things which are going on inside of ON development. Like, schedule of > > stabilization builds, code reviews, decisions made, etc. > > > > Also, it would be wonderful if Sun engineers invented a rule of thumb > > which will enforce every single putback to go through the community > > review before merging to the main tree, similar to what we see in Linux > > kernel, where patches goes directly to the mailing list and reviewed by > > thousands of kernel hackers. Not only it will increase community's input > > but also will stimulate outsiders to commit more often. > > > > This would also help outsiders to understand ON code and will create > > certain discipline among developers. > > > > > -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
