Ken Mays wrote:
> Oh, I just read the note on the 'unknown' soldiers within Sun that work on
> JDS but are either 'unknown' or not that 'vocal' within the desktop-discuss
> community (but maybe elsewhere). The JDS-related people that 'just do their
> job at Sun' but may not get 'fully' recognized for their efforts.
>
> There should be some sort of recognition program (the typical easter egg
> within 'About Gnome' seems to be one) for both the 'Community' as well as
> the JDS team. So, if you are the 'Totem' expert or maintainer at Sun you can
> at least know whom in the Community is also the 'Totem' expert or maintainer.
> People are not always vocal about what their contributions in 'communities'
> but it doesn't mean it should go unnoticed either (from a community
> perspective).
>
> Just a thought that may already be in place...
>
Heck, I'd like to see this for areas outside of JDS (although exposed
via JDS.) There are a lot of people who contribute to make OpenSolaris
the incredible product it is. Rolling credits would be "neat". (Plus,
in some cases, there are doco requirements for copyright holders.)
The folks I'm thinking about aren't just Sun employees either. Roland,
Murayama, and others have contributed code, time, and energy into making
OpenSolaris even better. It would be cool if their names could be
posted somewhere "nice". Ala "About OpenSolaris..." You could even
have sections for things like "Product Engineering", "Quality
Engineering", "Documentation", etc.
I recognize not everyone would want this form of recognition, but maybe
offer a signup web page where contributors can offer up their name and a
brief justification of what their contribution is.
I'll also point out that this form of external recognition might be just
the sort of carrot to get some of those "internal folks" at Sun to
recognize the benefit to participating more openly in the "external"
community.
-- Garrett
