Brian Cameron wrote: > 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. > No, a Sun badge shouldn't be sufficient. But it shouldn't an order of magnitude more difficult than becoming a voting member of gnome.org. I was able to vote in GNOME elections based on QA and user help type activity years ago, probably before I knew how to properly pronounce GNOME. I don't remember it being as difficult and I don't see gnome.org as being too dilute. On the other hand, my first request to become a voting member of opensolaris.org went out nearly a year ago but I didn't understand the magical process so Ghee and I created a process. As part of this proposed process, we made being a "contributor" a prerequisite to becoming a "core contributor" so I'm in the queue with all of the other newcomers. (Hopefully venting so they won't have to.)
> 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. > I don't agree. Sun's internal engineering hierarchy should have nothing to do with OpenSolaris "Contributor" or "Core Contributor" hierarchy. Two of our most recent additions (one a former intern and one a seasoned engineer) are soft spoken but extremely valuable contributors to OpenSolaris. > 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 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
