Doug Scott wrote: > Stephen Lau wrote: > >> Doug Scott wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> Ignoring my juvenile desire to make jokes about coming out of the >> closet for a second... >> I don't think people being a contributor or core contributor >> necessarily reflect open source practices. Arguably, many of Sun's >> Desktop QA team devote countless hours to improving upstream open >> source code bases (GNOME or Mozilla being the obvious examples), >> filing bugs in their bugzillas, etc. They may be quiet on the lists, >> but they're there - and they certainly aren't throwing stuff over the >> wall and skulking away. >> So I agree with Ghee that they should be recognised for their work - >> and if they want recognition *as well* as the additional >> responsibilities of helping to lead and set direction for the Desktop >> Community - then "Core Contributor" is fine by me. >> > If they want Core Contributor, the first thing to do is to make sure > people in the community know you exist. It should not be the first email > you send is asking for Core Contributor. > I cannot disagree with you here :) > >> But if they don't want to play the active role in leading the >> Desktop Community, then "Contributor" should be the more appropriate >> role. >> > I do think it is overdue that many Sun Employee's who have been > contributing through Sun or an external community should be given > recognition > for their work, especially if they do a lot of it in their own time. > Unless they have been a visible part of the OpenSolaris.Org community, I > feel it is a bit much to be considered a core contributor though. If all > their only communication is upstream, then a grant upstream is more > appropriate. > I bet to be differed here, if an individual has done significant works primarily upstream and may be lesser here in OpenSolaris for effectiveness reason; still want to be part of and recognised by this community. We should not tell them, get your recognition elsewhere. That's a primary reason why people work in F/OSS. At best, we can demand more evidence of contribution down-stream as well as up-stream. We should be more conducive in better recognition of people's contributions one way or another, the reasoning behind the categories included in the guidelines.
-Ghee > Doug > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
