Well said. If this the path we strife to go down, I keep my mouth shut for the thread save everyone times and energy :)
The goal of unification stated in the final paragraph to me is the ethos the OpenSolaris should strife towards to. -Ghee Glynn Foster wrote: > Hey, > > >> 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.) >> > > This is one of the things I want to change about the constitution, but haven't > yet had time to write up into a more formal amendment. > > The people who do the work get to decide the direction of the project. > Period. I > trust those people. They're doing it day in, day out. They know the system > better than I could. If I have a desktop multimedia question I'm sure as hell > going to talk to Brian. If I had a compiz question I'm going to talk to > Erwann. > If I DTrace question, I'd *fully* trust all the DTrace guys 100% to know > what's > best. Similarly for Garrett and drivers, or John Plocher about ARC. They are > solely the people who should be deciding things, regardless of whether we have > contributors or core contributors. Those decisions don't really need a vote - > just get on with it, and make it happen. We'll all be better off. > > However, we *do* need to make opensolaris.org an open, positive and welcoming > community - encouraging the new people to join the project, get involved, and > have fun. If we don't, we'll lose. Membership, I believe, is a core part of > that. > > I'd very much like to see the contributor/core contributor/emeritus model > removed to be replaced by general membership - what we currently have just > causes confusion. People who are interested and excited about being part of > the > OpenSolaris project can submit their name for membership, based on their > contributions and visibility to date *within* opensolaris.org. If accepted > they'll be able to vote in the OGB elections. Does that mean they'll get to > decide the direction of DTrace? Hell no. If they start writing code, or > leading > some other project, they'll absolutely get a say there. > > The benefits? Unification - rather than all working in silos, wondering why > your > contributions haven't been recognized by X, Y or Z community group, you're > part > of something wider, more inclusive and working on the same set of goals. > > > > Glynn > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
