Nice idea :) It would be a bit of overkill for a small CG though. For Desktop CG size, this is perfect.
-Ghee Garrett D'Amore wrote: > An important to thing to consider when considering "Core Contributor > Grants" is that they confer voting privileges. Apart from that > distinction, there is no difference between Contributors and Core > Contributors. > > I've been considering putting forth a set of proposed amendments to the > constitution which would have an impact on the way representation works. > > One idea is to split the powers between "houses". Imagine that you had > an "upper house" of Core Contributors, made of up at most 3 persons per > community (and no one person could be a CC for more than one community), > and a "lower house" made of up all Contributors. > > Then you could have election rules like: > > 1) OGB is elected by popular election from all Contributors. > 2) Core Contributors for a CG are elected by the Contributors from that CG. > 3) Constitutional Amendments must be passed by both "houses" > 4) Other community-wide matters requiring a vote (I can't think of any, > but imagine if the OGB requested an action be passed by the membership) > are handled by the Core Contributors. > > Just thinking out loud here... but right now the way CC grants versus C > grants are given out is far too inconsistent from one CG to another. > > -- Garrett > > Brian Cameron wrote: > >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
