Brian: >> 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.
I didn't intend to say that Sun's engineering hierarchy and OpenSolaris core-contributor should have a 1-1 mapping. That said, I disagree that one's position within Sun should have "nothing" to do with being an OpenSolaris contributor. What I was trying to say is that the qualifications that make a person a senior engineer (such as having experience working across organizational boundries) are the sort of things that would qualify someone for being a core contributor. This doesn't mean that a junior programmer couldn't also have these skills or be a core contributor. I would think it odd, for example, if the OpenSolaris core contributors list were only made up of interns and junior programmers while the list of "contributors" were full of senior engineers. Wouldn't that seem odd to you? So there *is* some relation. Brian
