[arc-discuss] [ogb-discuss] John's thoughts on how Projects should interact with the ARC community

[Chris Mahan]

On Jan 28, 2008 8:19 PM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote:

>
> Certainly - if all you want is a sandbox to play in, and don't intend
> to do anything that will ever impact any other source tree in the
> community, then yes, the ARC process probably can safely be ignored.
>
> Sun's ARC process is simply "think before you act", "do things
> by intent", and "set expectations, then live up to them".  In other
> words, "be an engineer".
>
> I'm not willing to abandon those core principles just because some
> potential project might not be comfortable with the required
> discipline.
>
>
I think people need to go read The Cathedral and the Bazaar again.

(
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/index.html#catbmain
)

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