Glynn Foster wrote: > I still don't personally see the benefit of coming a Contributor vs Core > Contributor right now - there's very little difference other than voting > rights
Right now, no. But if we don't do something to unmuddle them, they never will be useful - or used. And I think we need the distinction in the ARC world... > and I'd like to think that there will be few (if any) formal votes on the > community and decisions are based on general consensus. General consensus doesn't work on large aliases (cf opensolaris-discuss), so, while it would be nice to get consensus from the unbounded subscribers to the opensolaris-ARC alias for approval of an ARC case, we really need the ability to have a class of participants who are expected to lead discussions and vote (contributers and core) and another who are expected to mostly watch. Think of last week's OGB transparency discussion - at an OGB meeting, the OGB needs to talk and the rest of us need to listen. Those of us who are not on the OGB can't presume to hijack your meeting by speaking out of turn, and you can't surrender your leadership responsibility by waiting for consensus from all of us observers. -John
