On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Bonnie Corwin wrote: > On 04/13/09 03:30 PM, Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: >> Hi gang - >> >> in our last meeting, I noted my concern with many of us making assumptions >> about how important certain things are to the community. I would like to >> propose running a priority poll again, as soon as we can, so we can >> actually >> have a basis for our prioritizations. >> >> for example, many of us are really excited to push through an updated >> version >> of the new constitution - but do we know that the community has interest >> in a special election to do so? I think a quick priorities poll will help >> >> I would suggest the following items for the poll, yes some are repeats: >> >> Deploy a public integrated defect management system. > > What is this item? > > In 2008, a 'public defect management system' was on the priorities list, and > it was then implemented.
Hi Bonnie - Notice I changed the 2008 wording. What we have now is two databases: Bugtraq and Bugzilla. External people can file bugs in both places, but they are not linked in any way shape or form. Also, there is bugs.opensolaris.org to connect to Bugtraq, but external developers cannot own them. The idea of a poll comes from the OGB's discussion on what areas we should prioritize one. Me, personally, can put 100% of my OGB time on constitution related issues or 100% into defect tracking tasks (which you know I am interested in, but have not had much time to devout to this as part of my regular job). Or split... I think it is useful to know what the community wants us to spend our limited time and resources on. Most of these items, though, i got from the 2008 poll list, as we had discussed in our last OGB meeting as a good place to start the discussion. The list can morph and change, I'm not set on any of these. >> Deploy a public RTI system. > > OpenRTI is a project, and it's waiting on input from the Open Development > Infrastructure project. It's noted in the Open Development Infrastructure > project because it's needed as a part of that infrastructure. I thought there were other things holding it up as well (such as a design review?). Again, should the OGB prioritize on reviewing things in this area, or spend their time elsewhere? I think that's a valid question. >> Create an infrastructure project to run opensolaris.org. > > There is a project in progress in the website community to restructure the > portal application to move towards a collection of interconnected lightweight > applications to enable easier support and development of the site. Is that > what this item is or is this something different? No, Michelle mentioned on another thread that this was being worked on. > >> Deploy a public wiki on opensolaris.org. > > There is a project in progress in the website community to provide wiki > functionality on opensolaris.org. Information about the wiki requirements, > the selection of XWiki and a pointer to the new test portal which is based on > XWiki can be found in the website community. > Again, Michelle mentioned she was working on this on that same other thread. > > > In general, I'm not understanding this list of items. It seems to be a > mixture of potential items the community might want the OGB to spend time on > and a list of items that the community might want to generally see > implemented. But the latter list would say nothing about resources to get > something implemented even if the desire is high. Yes, that's right - but like I noted with the defect tracking issue, it's a matter of where we, the OGB, would spend our resources. we obviously cannot commit resources of other teams. I would be happy to rephrase any of these items - this mail is just to start a discussion. Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
