I'm not sure how that happened. When the transition to the new
constitutions was made, the the 'leaders' for each community were
automatically made core contributors. I just assumed that this was the
case for the observability community. As the person who originally
created the community, I have never been contacted about core
contributor membership. We should definitely get that fixed.
While certain observability projects (DTrace, MDB, etc) are large enough
to warrant a community of their own, I don't think the entirety of the
observability community is subsumed by other communities on OpenSolaris.
For example, we currently sponsor the jkstat and network MIB projects.
So personally I would like to see it continue, and we should set up the
appropriate infrastructure (core contributors, facilitator, etc) to do
so. That being said, the webpages could use a little TLC from someone
with some free time on their hands.
The current website leaders are:
bmc (Bryan M. Cantrill)
mws (Mike Shapiro)
dp (Daniel B. Price)
tomee (Tom Erickson)
rab (Russell Blaine)
barts (Bart Smaalders)
eschrock (Eric Schrock)
ahl (Adam H. Leventhal)
ptribble (Peter Tribble)
Certainly all these people are worthy of being core contributors, but
I'd also be happy to reduce that set if we'd prefer to have a finer set
of criteria between core contributors and contributors.
And does anyone want to step up to be the facilitator for the community?
- Eric
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:21:20PM +0000, Peter Tribble wrote:
> A couple of times now we (the observability community) have been asked to
> approve projects. However, having no contributors or core contributors makes
> it impossible to do this, and indeed means that constitutionally we do not
> exist.
>
> Is there interest in fixing this, and if so what should the list of
> contributors
> and core contributors be?
>
> Or should we be restructuring the community structure (there are other
> communities related to observability)?
>
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