[arc-discuss] [osol-discuss] How2Prevent at OpenSolaris

[Alan Coopersmith]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> 
>> The OGB's power here is to dissolve the ARC Community.  Is that what
>> you're asking?  If so, then on what basis?
> 
> I like to see the ARC to work in a way that is more oriented to reality and 
> feasibility. 
> 
> If serious objections do not even cause a fast-track to be derailed, then
> something is wrong and needs a rework.

There was discussion in LSARC/2007/316 about the ImageMagick program names
being rather generic, but there was no objection or cause for de-railing.
Unfortunately, that case appears to have been published to the community,
but not discussed on a community-visible mailing list.

Your objections actually seem to be that the ARC is oriented to reality and
feasibility - it's unfeasible for the ARC to be expected to find every
possible name conflict with every program written by someone in the world and
used by a handful of people, and the reality is, ImageMagick is far more
widely used than your compare program.    There is no world-wide registry of
open source command names we can force projects to check against to be sure
they're not using one that already exists.

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