How does PSARC take input from non-project communities?

[Rainer Heilke]

John Plocher wrote:

>Rainer Heilke wrote:
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>>John Plocher wrote:
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>>> The ARC is all about "us" reviewing
>>>"our" projects, and not "our" projects being beat up by "them" :-)
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>>Having said that, though, as Darren has pointed out earlier the sysadmin 
>>group hopes to influence other development groups ...
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>>Again, thank you both for this continued discussion and the resulting 
>>clarifications.
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>There are several non-exclusive things that a group like sysadmin
>can do, each having its own set of pros and cons:
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>o They can have their people become active members of the ARC,
>   where they read, mentor and review each project as it goes thru,
>
>o They can have their people be passive subscribers to the ARC
>   discussions, jumping in with comments and suggestions as desired,
>
>o They can, independent of the ARC, follow the creation of projects
>   and ARC cases, choose which ones to get involved with, and devote
>   time and resources making sure that those projects/cases do the
>   right thing,
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>o They can develop a "policy document" that sets out the architectural
>   boundaries, requirements, etc that are relevant to the group, and
>   bring it to the ARC as a candidate to become an ARC policy which the
>   ARC will then expect future projects to honor,
>
>o ... etc ...
>
>Today, you can do all but the first bullet.  You can even get involved
>with the effort to make that first bullet an option (via the arc-discuss
>ARC community alias).
>
>   -John
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>
So, both as individuals and as a community, we should be deciding how we 
want to work with the ARC (and the other communities directly) to 
influence the things we want to influence in the direction(s) we want 
them to go. I guess that becomes our "take-away", if I may use horrible 
meeting-speak. I suspect that we need to, as a community decide how the 
community should get involved, and then work within the community to get 
various members to represent the group as per their capabilities, 
time-wise and otherwise. People who are able and have the interest, can 
go beyond this community commitment.

Sound about right?

Rainer