[ogb-discuss] Ben's Agenda Items for Jan 23rd, 2008

[John Plocher]

Ben Rockwood wrote:
> Good or bad.  Right or wrong.  For better or worse.  OPEN.  Thats what 
> transparency is, and thats what this board must be.

We run into this in the ARC world from time to time - and have figured
out how to deal with it in a reasonable manner.  The norm is to have
everything exposed to all of engineering* (mail archives, interest list
subscriptions, case materials...), but we do realize that exceptional
cases arise where this openness is not appropriate.  In those (very rare)
cases, we make 1-off special efforts to protect the confidential
information by bypassing the aliases, redacting the materials, and
not archiving the sensitive bits.

The important bit is that there *is* no normal mechanism for the ARCs
to have a truly private/secret discussion, so each such discussion is
handled as an exception - with knowledge up front that we are
intentionally bypassing our community's transparency expectations.

(When I say very rare, I mean 1 or 2 out of a thousand cases or so...)

   -John

[*] Yeah, the irony here is that the ARCs still review proprietary
projects within Sun that are not exposed to the OS.o world...
Sigh :-)