The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

[Joseph Kowalski]

Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>
> On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Joseph Kowalski wrote:
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>> Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>>> BTW, Joseph, veto power is defined by the OS.o constitution and is
>>> almost identical to that used by Apache.
>> BTW 1:  Please point me at this (It must be somewhere on 
>> OpenSolaris.com,
>>    but I can't seem to find it.)
>
> <http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/#ARTICLE_VIII.__Community_Group_Voting_Procedures> 
>
Well, this is interesting.  What the Constitution implies seems to be 
directly in conflict with the development process.

Taken by itself, the Constitution seems to make the ARC process 
irrelevant...

Unless, the agreement within a Community produces the specification 
which they submit to the ARC process.  I recall this to be the way the 
earlier documents had this (including a way to override the ARC).  
Something seems amiss.

John (or whoever)... This seems to be something that the OGB needs to 
clarify.

(I think the convoluted voting rules are pretty silly and I can easily 
construct timelines which result in approval having a quasar effect, but 
this isn't something I'm personally concerned about.)
>> BTW 2: Please provide the list of "core contributors" and the rules to
>>    obtain that status.
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> <http://poll.opensolaris.org/#tab2>
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> I don't know how that is being managed.
This is just an automated "voting machine".  It seems to have nothing to 
do with how "citizenship" is determined or checked.

Actually, section 7.8 of the Constitution has the "rules" for core 
contributor status (as I asked about).  It seems that nobody has just 
bothered to bother to list the annointed ones for each community.  
Within a community, this is what I expected.  This seems to be nothing 
more than a failure to act.
> ....Roy
>
- jek3