[arc-discuss] ARC Community organization

[Darren Reed]

John Plocher wrote:

>....
>FastTracks
>
>       Fasttracks are projects that are simple and not expected to be
>       controversial, whose approval is ASSUMED. They have a week-long timer
>       for discussion; when it expires, the case is approved.  During that
>       week, a Core Contributer can choose to do several things:
>
>           * They can ask to derail the fasttrack because it isn't simple or
>             because it is controversial. This action morphs the case into a
>             full review case (see below)
>           * They can ask for more time on the timer.
>           * They can stop the timer by requesting more information
>             ("NEED SPEC") from the submitter and/or project team (and,
>             obviously, restart it when the materials are provided).
>
>       NON-VOTING participants (contributers, interns, observers and project
>       team members are free to ask questions, provide clarifications and
>       otherwise discuss the architectural implications of the proposal
>       (keeping in mind the REVIEW nature of the discussion); they, however,
>       do NOT have the abilities noted above, which are reserved for Core
>       Contributers.
>  
>

John,

I'd like to see more discussion on the "timeout" for fast tracks.

Some people file fast tracks on Monday/Tuesday and expect them
to be approved on Wednesday if nobody sends any email for discussion
or even set the timeout to be shorter than one week.

To me this expectation seems to be abuse of the PSARC meeting
as a way to have fast tracks approved more quickly than they
otherwise should, making it more difficult for proposals to be
properly evaluated.  I'd prefer to see fast tracks that are not "closed
automatic approval" (i.e those that aren't really obvious) have a
minimum lifetime - maybe 3 business days?  Or simply state that
only fast tracks filed the previous week are eligable for premature
approval?  I understand that this might get in the way, from time to
time, of an urgent change that needs to get in, but it is rare that
such hasty engineering is actually good.

Darren