Parted - GNU Partition Editor [PSARC/2009/145 FastTrack timeout 03/06/2009]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:06:45AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> That's not what the project team decided to do.

Project teams do get to make such decisions today.  But it's worth
asking "why?" if asking causes them to re-think the matter.

> The project team hasn't committed to supporting ntfsprogs for other 
> uses.   While it would have been nice of them to do so, they didn't, and 
> I don't think its PSARC's role to require them to do so either.

If every i-team did this we'd end up with a truly ugly, unfriendly
system, so at some point the ARC has to consider whether to let project
teams get away with this.

The ARC ought to at least raise the issue in the hopes of getting the
i-team to reconsider, or, if nothing else, to document the rationale for
choosing to hide away FOSS dependencies.  The latter might be helpful to
future i-teams working in the same area.