W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> You have a special talent of twisting words. I said the OGB obliged in
> putting the request to a vote. This is what irked me THE MOST. This is all
> what I said. Even an idiot knows no one has the power to make a group
> disappear. But the OGB put this ugly issue into a vote anyway, and there
> were IIRC some ogb member(s) voted for the dissolvement.
The OpenSolaris constitution gives the OGB both the right & responsibility to
create subgroups called Community Groups, and to dissolve them when necessary.
We don't make the group "disappear", but we can take away its web pages and
mailing lists on opensolaris.org. No OGB members voted to dissolve, since
we actually never took a vote on such an action - the actual vote we took was
whether or not to take no action at all - and yes, some members voted against
taking no action, but did not specify what action they'd want the OGB to take
- it could have been dissolving it, sending it a message, splitting Indiana
out from a project under desktop into a Community Group of it's own, or
something else.
> So, I propose the ogb to disband the ogb board, will you consider to put it
> into a vote?
> Of course not, b/c I am not a prominent member of the community.
No, because you have given no reason we should have such a discussion. Roy
gave a valid argument, we discussed it and decided it wasn't the action we
wanted to take. Under the Constitution, we can disband the OGB, which results
in invalidating the Consitution, undoing the community structure, and returning
community governance to Sun's hands.
> My impression that the xwindow team is boycotting against the Indiana Project
> is only personal. Rightly or wrongly, please respect the opinion of a lowly
> forum participant. I particularly resent the condescension of your tone.
Please respect my team's right not to be slandered by you or publicly
accused of not doing our jobs, especially when I doubt you know any of
them but me, nor what we do. If my attitude annoys you, I'm sorry,
but I've been working very hard to improve the X Window System on Indiana
for months, and your mail arrived the morning after yet another 12+ hour day
in the office working on it - to have all that dismissed as "boycotting"
is not only untrue but insulting.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
