[arc-discuss] Requesting PSARC/2007/124 details

[James Carlson]

Alan Coopersmith writes:
> Are the ARC's an independent entity shared by all the communities
> Sun participates in?   When adding community members, does that mean
> OpenSolaris community members get to vote on OpenJDK cases?   When
> plocher lists all PSARC members as Core Contributors of all external
> communities, do they get voting rights in all even if they only
> participate in one?   What happens if OpenSolaris and OpenJDK choose
> different governance rules?   These are some of the questions that
> lead me to wonder if we shouldn't have one or more OpenSolaris-specific
> ARCs, separate from the Sun SAC, and limit the Sun SAC to deciding
> whether or not to accept an OpenSolaris ARC decision into Sun products.

I think that'd be quite a sad development, indeed.

What's the perceived need or underlying threat here?  That someone
participating in OpenSolaris would try to sabotage OpenJDK or
vice-versa by voting badly?  It seems a bit far-fetched.

One of the important design features of the ARC (as it stands today)
is that it covers everything, and doesn't respect organizational or
product boundaries.  I think that's actually a good thing, so I'd be
rather reluctant to give it up without having an extant case where
we're stuck.

Perhaps all that's needed is the ability to delegate in cases where it
makes sense.  We already have the ability to steer clear (within the
confines of a given case) from areas where some outside authority has
control (such as with standards bodies), so how is this substantially
different?

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