STREAMS and Character Device Coexistence [PSARC/2009/380 FastTrack timeout 07/13/2009]

[Garrett D'Amore]

Bart Smaalders wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> James Carlson wrote:
>>> Edward Pilatowicz wrote:
>>>> fyi, i'm not a psarc member.
>>>> i'm just a heckler[1].
>>>
>>> ARC review: hecklers wanted.
>>>
>>> ;-}
>>>
>> Another fair question: why aren't you a PSARC member?  :-)
>>
>>    - Garrett
>>
>
> Because as a heckler, you get to chime in on the cases you care about,
> and yet not end up writing opinions, or trying to come up to speed
> on things far outside your areas of interest; this also helps keep
> one's time commitment to a more reasonable level.
>
> One of the problems that PSARC has had is that those who are doing
> interesting work often found it difficult to justify the time
> commitment involved in active participation.  This would sometimes
> lead to having folks involved on PSARC who hadn't actually delivered
> a project involving substantial change to the system in many years.

This is what "Sabbatical" is for. :-)

I'd like to think that I'm still highly active as an actual contributor, 
and am not burning huge amounts of my time on PSARC.  (That said, PSARC 
*does* impose a non-trivial time commitment.   But I believe that the 
end result is a net gain, both for myself and for the company...)

    - Garrett
>
> - Bart
>
>