Hi, Driver-discuss community has not submit a list of core contributors yet. After the discussion in the driver-discuss mail list (please refer to the following emails), we now have the following core contributors to submit to ogb. I think ogb-discuss is the right place to submit.
gpchen (Gaopeng Chen) Contributed to USB and fingerprint reader support riny (Riny Qian) Work on virtual console project and audio drivers roamer (Lu Yun-Song) Contributed to LongRiver project vincent (Rui Wang) gdamore (Garrett D'Amore) Driver community leader max (Max Bruning) Driver community leader vincent (Rui Wang) Contributed to LongRiver project and Cardbus colin (Colin Zou) Contributed USB drivers Thanks, Colin Colin Zou wrote: > Hi, all, > > Please note that the deadline is set to July 18. By now, thanks to folks > who actively responded (who were nominated AND replied to this email > thread), we have a list of core contributor names as following. I am > copying each of them. Please let me know your opensolaris *account name* > by July 18. If there are no objections, these folks will be submitted to > ogb as driver-discuss community core contributors. > > Riny Qian Work on virtual console project > Gaopeng.Chen at sun.com Contributed to USB and fingerprint reader support > Garrett D'Amore Driver community leader > Max Bruning Driver community leader > Lu, Yunsong (Roamer) Contributed to LongRiver project > Rui Wang (Vincent) Contributed to LongRiver project and Cardbus > Xiuyan.Wang at sun.com Contributed to NIC drivers > Colin Zou Contributed USB drivers > > Thanks, > Colin > > Gaopeng Chen - Sun China wrote: > >> I nominate Colin, Riny and Max. I hope that the Core Contributers can be >> selected very soon, for I have a urgent project to be sponsored under >> the new opensolaris process. Thanks. >> >> >> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:15, Colin Zou wrote: >> >> >>> Second. >>> >>> Hi, all driver-discuss community leaders and members, >>> >>> Please continue this topic. According to opensolaris Constitution, >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/, a community >>> need core contributors. We had a lot of technical discussion and a lot >>> of projects in this community by now, it is also good for us conform to >>> opensolaris Constitution in order to improve the process. Without core >>> contributors, it is difficult for this community to sponsor any new >>> projects. >>> >>> Garrett, Roamer and Lucy set off a good start of this thread, let's >>> finish this topic by July 18. I would like to know your comments. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Colin >>> >>> Yunsong (Roamer) Lu wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Second! And thank you very much for driving this! >>>> >>>> Can I start to nominate people as initial contributors? Looking at >>>> other communities, I would like to simply nominate listed leaders of >>>> device driver community: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Riny Qian Work on virtual console project >>>>> Colin Zou Lead USB discuss >>>>> Garrett D'Amore Driver community leader >>>>> Max Bruning Driver community leader >>>>> Masayuki Murayama Contributed many NIC drivers >>>>> Lu, Yunsong (Roamer) Contributed to LongRiver project >>>>> Rui Wang (Vincent) Contributed to LongRiver project and Cardbus >>>>> Javen Wu Contributed to LongRiver project and IBM ServeRaid >>>>> >>>>> >>>> drivers >>>> plus: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Paul Durrant >>>>> Dan Mick >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Roamer >>>> >>>> Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> The driver-discuss community is currently at risk because it has not >>>>> identified any Core Contributors. From the OGB perspective, this >>>>> makes the group look like it is inactive, and it also means that the >>>>> group has no voting representation. >>>>> >>>>> We need to correct this by identifying at minimum 3 Core >>>>> Contributors. We can also identify additional Contributors and Core >>>>> Contributors. >>>>> >>>>> Core Contributors are distinct in that they have voting privileges, >>>>> and they really should represent the interests of the group. I think >>>>> it is very important that Core Contributors be "in tune" with the >>>>> community, by participating on driver-discuss. Just committing code >>>>> into Nevada (or any other consolidation) should probably not entitle >>>>> you to Core Contributor status, by itself. Of course, it would be >>>>> nice if they also have some contributions for which they are well >>>>> known in the community. >>>>> >>>>> We are also supposed to have some process by which Core Contributors >>>>> and Contributors are granted. >>>>> >>>>> I'm going to propose the following simple process, for now: >>>>> >>>>> Identify as "Participants" the union of people who are identified as >>>>> either Core Contributors for the Device Drivers Community, or as >>>>> Community Leaders for the Device. >>>>> >>>>> Any person who agrees and is nominated by a Participant and seconded >>>>> by at least two other Participants, with no objecting Participants >>>>> shall be considered a Core Contributor. Any person who agrees and >>>>> is nominated by a Participant and seconded by another shall be >>>>> considered a Contributor. Self nomination or seconding is allowed. >>>>> >>>>> If there are objectors, then a full majority of Core Contributors >>>>> (and not less than 2) can overrule the objector(s). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Of course, we have to have a process to approve this rule, so I'm >>>>> going to ask for a simple majority of *responding* Participants (the >>>>> Leaders, identified momentarily) to approve the above policy. (This >>>>> means that if you don't participate, your lack of participation can't >>>>> hold up the vote!) The main thing is to get this thing bootstrapped >>>>> for now. Once we have Core Contributors identified, we can change it >>>>> again later. >>>>> >>>>> So, to those who are on the leaders list (because we have no Core >>>>> Contributors as yet), do you approve the process? (Yes? No? Abstain?) >>>>> Please respond to driver-discuss at opensolaris.org, so everyone knows >>>>> who voted and who did not. (I'm not sending this to people not on >>>>> driver-discuss, because, by my reckoning, such people aren't active >>>>> in the community and therefore probably shouldn't have their votes >>>>> considered.) >>>>> >>>>> The list of Community Leaders is: >>>>> >>>>> Riny Qian >>>>> Colin Zou >>>>> James C. Liu >>>>> Kevin X. Song >>>>> Garrett D'Amore >>>>> Max Bruning >>>>> Lu Yun-Song (Roamer) >>>>> Masayuki Murayama >>>>> Rui Wang (Vincent) >>>>> Alta Elstad >>>>> Javen Wu >>>>> Oliver Yang >>>>> Alan DuBoff >>>>> >>>>> Thanks1 >>>>> >>>>> -- Garrett D'Amore >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> driver-discuss mailing list >>>>> driver-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> driver-discuss mailing list >>>> driver-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss >>>> >>>> > > _______________________________________________ > driver-discuss mailing list > driver-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss >
