On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:52 +0700, Doug Scott wrote:
> > This is only one specific aspect of the community, not everyone
> is
> > interested [1]
> > But if a Core Contributor is not doing this but hacking away on
> many
> > technical
> > area and wanted to be a Core Contributor, why should s/he be
> rejected?
> >
> If they are hacking away and have no community involvement, then why
> should they be a Core Contributor? Are you wanting to encourage the
> old
> Sun practice of throwing contributions over the wall when and if they
> feel like it. Encouraging the Sun developers out of the closet and
> into
> community involvement is long overdue.
>
Doug,
I think you are making a wrong assumption here.
Actually many Sun engineers are working on upstream communities, such
as GNOME, Mozilla, Helix, Pidgin directly. They are providing patches to
these communities, maintaining modules there. The QA engineers are
filing bugs in their bug systems directly. Their contributions will be
used directly in OpenSolaris desktop.
They might not show up in this alias actively. But their work benefit
the OpenSolaris desktop. I think they deserve the "contributor" or "core
contributor" grant.
Thanks,
Harry
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