Alo: > For example: should a developer/QA engineer in the JDS team have the > core contributor status? Well, given that is a person who is spending > at least 8 hour a day working on the OSOL desktop, I would say that it > is, without having to apply any kind a rule or voting.
I disagree. The Core Contributors group is designed to be a group of leaders who make decisions about the direction of the OpenSolaris desktop. The people in this group should be people who have reasonable leadership/communication skills, ability to make decisions, and have a track record of working well with the other groups (internal or external to Sun) relating to their jobs. I don't think it makes sense for a person to be automagically granted a core contributor status just because they have a Sun badge. I would, for example, expect the list of Core Contributors to have some relation to the senior engineers in the JDS team, for example. It probably doesn't make so much sense for a junior programmer who has just started working for Sun last month to be considered a "core contributor" just because they work on the JDS team. So, it does seem to make some sense to have some process (be it voting or whatever) to pick which candidates make the most sense to be leading the community. > Of course, I am not saying that the current mechanism/rules is a bad > thing - I do not think it is. I am just trying to convince myself that > it is something that we really need as it is implemented today. Processes evolve. The current process is probably not perfect, or the same as we will have in 10 years. Probably a more useful question is whether the current process is reasonable for what we need at the moment. Brian
