On Jul 23, 2007, at 1:43 PM, John Forte wrote: > This is a request of contributor grant status for the following > OpenSolaris community members: > > Hyon Kim(htk) > Victor Li(wl202157) > Gary Horton(gh142101) > Robert Harryman(bharryma) > > I looked in both the Constitution and Policies and Guidance > sections of > the OGB page but I am unable to find any clear direction on how to > actually make this contributor grant status happen. The only item > that I > found in the constitution that seems to relate to this is in 7.7: > > "*7.7. Contributors.* The Contributors of a Community Group shall > include every person who has been designated by the Core > Contributors of > that Group to have contributed substantively to that Group's efforts, > including (but not limited to) every person who has contributed > intellectual property to the OpenSolaris Community as a result of > those > efforts." > > Which seems to be indicating that this is a designation done by the > core > contributors. Does this imply that the core contributors should have > some application available with which to do this? If so, I am > unaware of > the application that should be used. Or is it a case where we > should be > making grant status requests to OGB and this becomes OGB's > responsibility to fulfill the request?
The core contributors should make a decision to record so-and-so as a contributor. The process can be as simple as one person adding the name to a list of contributors and allowing lazy approval to confirm it. It is a CG responsibility. ....Roy
