The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

[John Plocher]

Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>    Roy, John,... Do you believe that any community delivering code is 
> required
>    to interact with the ARC, and to adhere to the decisions of the ARC 


I believe the intent of the ON/Nevada development process team, and the
intent of Sun when it opened up Solaris, and the intent of the ON developers
who were part of the initial ON "community"[1] was exactly as you say.

I raised comments WRT this topic on the CAB mailing list[2] as the constitution
was being drafted; the CAB members chose to ignore them, and the constitution
was presented to the community at large without any connection to the ARC
community.

Thus my unsatisfactory and very-much-frustrated response to your earlier
message: we have gotten to the worst possible result, and are keeping
the ship from sinking by behaving as if the situation is other than it
really is. This obviously (and justifiably) frustrates Roy :-)

I see it as an application of "when the rules are ambiguous or disagree
with the right thing to do,  change the rules".

   -John

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[1] yes, I know the transition from CAB to constitutional driven OGB
wasn't handled well (at all?) for ON...

[2] For background on the constitution/ARC discussions, see

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=6103&#6103
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=35990&#35990
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=36269&#36269

and somewhat off-topic

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=12136&#12136