On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Valerie Bubb Fenwick <Valerie.Fenwick at sun.com> [2009-03-23 22:30]: >> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Stephen Hahn wrote: >> >>> * John Plocher <john.plocher at gmail.com> [2009-03-19 03:40]: >>>> Anyone who was a core contributor as of Feb 16 (or so) should be >>>> eligible to vote in this year's election. >>>> >>>> As this is the first year grants expired, we have been finding bugs in >>>> the software. I'm Cc'ing Stephen Hahn; hopefully he can fix this. >>> >>> I've extended the grants that would have expired between 2/16 and 3/24 >>> to expire at or shortly after 3/24. Reminder message logs show that >>> this change results in approximately two dozen members more, even >>> though 168 grants were affected. (I send reminders every couple of >>> days during the election.) >> >> This seems to reverse an earlier OGB decision to *not* extend >> those grants. > > I'm not sure I saw that message, but such a decision would be in > direct conflict with Constitution 5.8 and 7.8.
Hi Stephen - I'm sorry, my confusion came with the range of dates that was extended. It is not, after all, in conflict with earlier decisions made by the OGB. >> Were those extra two dozen folks notified of this >> change so they knew they could vote? > > Yes, they would have been notified by email on the day their grants > were extended Great! >> (I know most of the folks in our community that expired had >> core grants elsewhere, which was apparently the case for most of >> them). > > The extended grants will expire long before the next election. Thank you, Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
