On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:55 PM, James Gates<James.Gates at sun.com> wrote: > I recently looked into the subject of Databases community contributers. The > only person who (possibly) qualifies is nils.goroll at hamburg.de (for raising > CRs and submitting suggested fixes). But this was approx. 1 year ago. There > were 2 others who (barely) qualify as contributers - dennis at lauschmusik.de > & > ro at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE as they have raised CRs. But this was back in > 2006! > > Myself & Zdenek Kotala regularly respond to DB related questions to > databases-discuss at opensolaris.org, but we are both internal. > > I'm not sure if any of this satisfies the OpenSolaris constitution.
I've not followed the databases community, but the level of activity does seem to be rather low, so past activity may not identify leaders. > But I would ask (if the community is terminated) how would people ask DB > related questions of us if there is no databases-discuss at opensolaris.org > email alias? We could keep the email address; we would have to find some other community to take stewardship of the Databases area. Another thing to consider is that I've heard that the potential new owner has some interest in the database area, apparently. And this may indicate that the community may become more active. The OGB don't know the answers to all the questions; we're looking for guidance from the affected communities as to how you would like to proceed. > Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> The Databases community has less than the required minimum of >> 3 Core Contributors to govern its affairs and, according to the >> OpenSolaris >> constitution, should be terminated. The OpenSolaris Governing Board can >> deal with the situation by: >> ?A) Terminating the community >> ?B) Designating at least 3 new Core Contributors in order to >> revitalize the community, or >> ?C) Merge this community with another (possibly as a project). >> >> If community members step up and make a good case for options >> B or C within the next 30 days (either by guiding the OGB as to who >> the new Core Contributors should be, or by advising the OGB what >> nature of merger would be in the best interests of the affected >> community) then the OGB will work with the community to take that >> option forward. Otherwise, the OGB will ask the website community >> to terminate the community group, following the procedure set forth >> here: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/web/infrastructure-setup/ >> >> Thanks, >> > > -- > Jim Gates ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Sun Microsystems > Peterborough, NH, USA ? ? ?http://sun.com/postgresql > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
