[ogb-discuss] Re: Proposed OGB policy on ARC reviews

[James Carlson]

Garrett D'Amore writes:
> I think that, for the near term, PSARC should be explicitly chartered by 
> OpenSolaris.   I'm not sure about the other ARCs, but I have little to 
> do with them. ;-)

There's a bit of a disconnect here.  PSARC is explictly and most
emphatically *NOT* "the Solaris ARC."

Nor is it more narrowly "the ON ARC."

Instead, it's the platform software ARC.  It was chartered to handle
all platform software.  Yes, Solaris happens to be a very important
platform, but it's not the only one, nor is all Solaris software
necessarily "platform software."  Many important things for Solaris
are done in the other ARCs.

I don't think rechartering PSARC and trying to make it the OpenSolaris
ARC necessarily makes sense, as you'd be essentially talking about a
new group -- not PSARC by any stretch.

I'm beginning to suspect that we need an ARC that is open-only, and
leave various distributors to create and run their own internal ARC
structures as they see fit.

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