[opensolaris-summit] My comments (very subjective) on proposed Summit topics

[Alan DuBoff]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> Actually, I take pretty strong exception to that fact.
>
> Until recently I was such a community member.

And before that you worked at Sun.

> Other community members are themselves former Sun employees...

Yes, but do we see these folks flocking to contribute code back?

Those people, as yourself, know the process and how it works. They have 
the knowledge and understanding, those are not the people I refer to. 
Those people as yourself are in a minority and I stated there are a few 
that do in fact have the skills. Again, you folks are in the minority.

> To suggest that the community lacks the skill set suggests either a) a
> level of elitism that I hope we don't exude to the rest of the world, or
> b) ignorance about what other folks are doing out there.

Whatever...split hairs if you like, fine.

> Now, having said all that, we do indeed have a number of processes in
> place which I don't want want to go away... codereview, test validation,
> and RTI advocacy are all steps along the way to ensure that the overall
> quality of what is in Solaris (Open or otherwise) meets some stringent
> quality considerations.

Do you think that folks should be allowed a putback if they don't 
completely meet the test validation process?

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group