[arc-discuss] Discussion requested for a new ARC Policy on "Expectation Taxonomy and Repository Requirements"

[Shawn Walker]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> wrote:
>
>  On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 12:04 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
>  > >  We're talking in the context of Solaris Next, as I understand it.  If
>  > >  the repository software is unable to deliver the functionality, then Sun
>  > >  will likely find it hard to provide no matter how much I pay them.
>  >
>  > I'm still confused as to why software requirements are being proposed
>  > to ARC instead of pkg-discuss.
>
>  these requirements have architectural implications for the whole of
>  solaris.  they're in scope for the ARC.

Yes, but they should be proposed to the pkg project, and then proposed
by the pkg project to ARC.

The current way is backwards to me.

-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben