How does PSARC take input from non-project communities?

Fri Sep 14 06:45:22 PDT 2007

Rainer Heilke writes:
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A nit, but if that can be turned off, it'd be appreciated.  It's hard
to read email with HTML all over it.

> That I misunderstood something is very probable. However, there are two
> ARC discussion forums on the forum page. The one I was following at the
> time (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=92">https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=92</a> under
> "Communities") ceased all discussion on April 31.

I'm not sure what you're talking about here.  arc-discuss (which
you're referencing above) isn't terribly busy, but there are certainly
still discussions going on there.  The newest I see right now is from
August 31st, not April.

It hasn't been shut down.

> Hence a big source of
> confusion. So, why the two different discussions, both ostensibly
> called "ARC"? <br>

I agree that this is highly confusing.

There are two separate lists, because one (arc-discuss) is for
discussion about the ARC itself -- how it should be run, what issues
it needs to address, and so on.  The other list (opensolaris-arc) is
for the actual ARC reviews themselves.  That is, when an OpenSolaris
project has an ARC review, you'll see the discussion traffic about
that project on opensolaris-arc.

The two lists are linked and very briefly described here:

  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/discussions/

I think there was a fear that (high-volume) project review traffic
would swamp those who want to talk about the role of the ARC, hence
the separation.

(Having one named "arc-review" and the other named "arc-trivia" or
some sort may have made it clearer ...)

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