Hey, 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).
I've gone ahead and added a few more endorsed projects that relate to various initiatives within the desktop space - if anyone has more suggestions of what projects we should endorse, don't hesitate to shout out. > 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. > > BTW, you missed 2 core contributors: Erwann Chenede and Doug > Scott were elected just after the OGB elections. I guess > it should have been announced on this list, sorry about that. > > Anyway, that's my opinion, what do other core contributors think? I think generally we need to figure out some sort of defined ladder that allows people to get contributor or core contributor status - it needs to be a little more defined than gut instinct somehow. Maybe something like a non-trivial contribution gets contributor status, and continued contributions of the period of, say, 6-12 months gets core-contributor status. We'd probably need some sort of membership working group to admin some of this. We're way ahead of a lot of other community groups in wanting to figure this out. FWIW, I think Eric's definitely done enough to get contributor status - though I'd like to get an idea of where we put core-contributor status on that scale, a little bit more before we go granting anything more. Glynn
