Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Sorry about the delay, I'm in the middle of travels. > You are definitely an important contributor of the desktop > community, in particular your blogging and spreading the word > about the build tools used in this community. I think there's > a bit of an issue, though, with granting [core] contributor > status based on spec-files-extra contributions. SFE is not an > opensolaris project at all, although it's clear that it's closely > related to the desktop community. There's also pkgbase, but > it has not really taken off (yet ;) and it's not even endorsed by > the desktop community. (I'd like to see that happen, btw). >
Do we need to vote on the desktop community endorsing pkgbase? If so, then +1 from me. > Talking about spec file contributions in general, I personally > don't think it makes sense to pick any number for a limit > to become a core contributor. For example, Sun employees who > are part of the desktop group have lots of spec files, but > I wouldn't give them core contributor status if they don't > participate in any community discussions. Maybe not even > contributor status. Actually, I don't think we need any > rules for this, it's a case by case thing. > I think there is an issue here that all OpenSolaris communities should decide on. What criteria, is used to judge core contributer status. For me, a core contributer should at least make substantial on-going contributions to 1 or more endorsed (by the community) projects, and also be active on the community discussion list. I agree that it has to be case-by-case, as using a metric like number of spec-files is problematic as not all spec-files are the same difficulty level. Doug
