Hi Peter - Thanks for going through these!
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Peter Tribble wrote: > These are the open governance bugs in bugzilla. I've appended my comments. > > 931 min P4 NEW OGB 2008/009 - Establish > regular reports > from Projects on their status > > I think we ought to pick this up and drive it forward. I would expect some > sort of report from all collectives (projects, user groups, and communities). > At least annually, if not quarterly.Operationally, we could tie it in to the > newsletter, but it should be something that every collective should do > anyway and shouldn't be a huge bureaucratic effort. > > (Implementation suggestion: simply create a mailing list. Reports may be > "The foo user group met 3 times in the last quarter", "The bar project > released a new version of the code", "The baz community group created > two new projects fred and joe". We want bullet points, not the complete > works of Shakespeare.) That sounds like a great idea to me. > 932 min P4 NEW OGB 2007/002 Community and Project > Reorganisation > > My own feeling is that this should be dropped. I don't want to see the OGB > dictatiting the structure of the community. Rather, it should evolve > naturally. > (That's not to say that the OGB shouldn't guide and encourage communities > and projects, and should point out where synergies and gaps exist that > individual collectives may have missed, but we shouldn't be telling the > community how to fracture itself.) > > 933 min P4 NEW OGB 2007/003: Communities with < 3 Core > Contributors > > We should wait for constitutional reform. Agree, though we may want to notify them if it is the case. > 1383 nor P4 NEW set of mailing list issues > > Close. If there are individual issues then open new bugs, although they > don't look like governance to me. I agree. > 1920 min P4 NEW OGB Directive to change "leader" to > "editor" in web app > > Hm. An OGB directive. Does the new infrastructure follow this directive? > If so, there's no problem. I'm not sure, but this would be nice. Lots of teams have folks doing edits that are not what you would typcially team "leaders" > 1937 maj P2 NEW OGB 2008/010 Simplifying the structure > of the > OpenSolaris Community > > I *think* that this is the new constitution. Given that it failed, we > should probably create a new bug to track future work. Although > John Plocher's comments follow 2007/002. Is there anything else > bundled in this that we need to track? > > 2186 min P4 NEW Make some useful SQL queries available > for the grants > > Is there any reason this is still open? Do we have any that exist? a few canned reports would be nice (like unexpired grants for each community) Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
