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

[Alan Coopersmith]

James Carlson wrote:
> 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? 

The need is figuring out how a Sun-controlled body like SAC/ARC fits into
a world where we are participants in many projects but controlling none of them.

Why should Sun's SAC have special powers over OpenSolaris that no other
participant in OpenSolaris has?   If another major vendor with internal
architectural review processes join the community, would they get similar
control?

If Sun is in no way special, then why would Sun's ARC's tie all these
unrelated communities together?   Why should the OpenJDK architectural
review be tied more to OpenSolaris than to Linux or BSD?   Or are we
opening up our ARC processes to tie together any open source projects
that want to interoperate?    Will we create OpenSAC that may have
participating projects from any community, regardless of Sun participation?
Sort of a loose affiliation of projects like Apache Foundation or
FreeDesktop.org?

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