I'm going to be on a plane to Hobart at the time we usually have a meeting so am unlikely to dial in. I would support a statement regretting the change that was made, welcoming the willingness of those involved to revert it pending review and asserting that the website group needs to take steps to prevent it happening again.
S. On Jan 21, 2009, at 02:41, Stephen Lau wrote: > Stephen Lau wrote: >> Honestly, I don't see a good long term strategy for this moving >> forward. Sun is just going to disregard this everytime, but the >> OGB is >> completely powerless to stop it. All we can do is say "hey! bad Sun! >> don't do that again!" without any negative repercussions. I know I'm >> tired of "forgiving" Sun for its abuses of power. The only way out >> of >> this I see is a community-run website, with content authors who are >> free >> from Sun-management duress and pressure. This means giving non-Sun >> employees freedom to change the opensolaris.org/os homepage. >> >> Vincent, Is Sun willing to let this happen? >> >> > Haven't seen a reply from Vincent yet... but in preparation for > tomorrow's meeting, here's what I would like to put on the agenda: > > 1) A statement, from the OGB, repudiating Sun's decision to update the > homepage with disregard to the review process. I don't think anything > elaborate need be done, something simple would be sufficient to send > out > to opensolaris-announce. > > 2) Discussion with Vincent (who I hope will be present, as the OGB > liason) as to whether Core Contributors to the Website CG who aren't > Sun > employees will be able to have access to edit the opensolaris.org/os > homepage. > > cheers, > steve > > -- > stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
