Alan Burlison wrote: > Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: > >>> As facilitators; the role as currently used is a communication conduit, >>> adding grant editing would be an extension that may or may not be a good >>> thing. >> >> I am concerned about this as well. This seems like a pretty big change to >> the facilitation role, and removes oversite from the OGB. I don't think we >> (the OGB) want that, do we? Have facilitators asked for this? Would they >> all fully understand the repercussions for their actions? There would be no >> oversite like there is now. It would require action on the OGB after the >> fact to review (which is easy to put off, and then never actually do...)
I agree. > There would be oversight because the grants would be visible. > > Is there any evidence to suggest that the Facilitators wouldn't carry out > their duties in a diligent fashion? In the current constitution we have these statements: "Thereafter, persons shall be admitted as Members of the OpenSolaris Community upon accepting the designation of Core Contributor for one or more OpenSolaris Groups and receipt by the Secretary of their willingness to accept the status of Member." "The Secretary shall have general charge of the membership records of the OpenSolaris Community and shall keep a record of the Members that shall include each Member's participant identifier, name, and electronic mail address." We also have this related policy: http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OGB_2009/007 The way I read this is it's up to the Secretary to decide how membership records are managed. They also decide if they want to delegate their record keeping responsibilities to others. The OGB has the responsibility to make sure member records are maintained according to the constitution. The auth tool makes it much easier to manage membership records directly and should greatly reduce or eliminate the need to collect membership updates using bugzilla. That said, for now, I'm conservative on this subject and recommend that only the Secretary and one designated backup have membership database access rights. I would like to reduce the number of variables. Also, I believe educating and policing the facilitators will take more effort than just one person managing the database. We can review this area in the proposed constitution. I still think it best that the Secretary retain control of this area including delegation if they wish. Cheers, Jim
