Ghee Teo wrote: > Doug Scott wrote: >> 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, The grant recognition is specifically for the commitment to the OpenSolaris.Org community. If the work is done elsewhere and filters back to the Desktop Community, as long as the person communicates what is happening/updates via our mailing list, then I call this entirely a valid part of the contribution grant. If nothing is discussed on this mailing list, then it happened elsewhere. A good example is that Ken Mays quite often make a simple announcement of related contributions on blastwave. This to me makes links his contributions on blastwave to his contributions on OpenSolaris.Org. At least the community knows what is happening, and can comment. Doug P.S. Gman, I thought we had already voted on Ken's upgrade to a core contributor. While it was not a stunning turnout by the core contributors, I only saw +1's
