PSARC 2008/625 - Streamline ARC 20Q

[John Plocher]

Bart Smaalders wrote:
> John Plocher wrote:
>> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>> This should be in a document tree that is referenced by this 20Q.
>>
>> Like the ARC Policy and Best Practices repository?
>>
>> Maybe an explicit reference would be good: "Please provide detailed
>> rationale for any ARC Policies and/or BPs you don't adhere to".
>>
>>
>>  -John
> 
> So where are all the ARC policies and BP clearly spelled out, such
> that someone could evaluate their project's compliance?

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/
and
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/bestpractices/

> 
> Telling someone to read the last 17 years of ARC cases before submitting
> a case is not very practical, and does nothing to simplify ARC
> processes. Attempting to use the Socratic method to tease out potential
> areas of non-compliance via the 20q obviously doesn't work very
> well either.

I agree, which is why we have put some effort into asking teams that
produce systems that generate these rules and requirements to write
them up in a form that is more easily usable.

> 
> If the ARC(s) were to modify their procedures such that all policies
> had to be enumerated in a single living & versioned document, 

We've had the policy and bp repository for almost a decade now...

  -John