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

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Tue Jan 29 15:30:39 PST 2008


On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:17:14AM -0800, Chris Mahan wrote:
> 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.

I don't.

Ceri
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