Glynn Foster wrote: > Hey, > > Stephen Lau wrote: >> +1 from me >> >> I've always felt a direct ownership of a Project by a CG would create >> more responsibility on the part of the CG to stay current with what's >> going on in the project, and vice versa. > > I'm actually not sure I agree, and maybe my opinion touches on what Peter has > already expressed that the Community Group structure has failed. I'd actually > like to see *less* of a bond between Projects and Community Groups. There > should > be an extremely low barrier to entry for project creation - rather than having > to even propose a project, any contributor should be able to JFDI. The project > will succeed depending on the number of people that gather around it and their > determination to complete it. > > We need to encourage the 'go knock yourselves out' mentality. The fact that > someone is interested in starting a project is a great thing and we need to > encourage that. The knowledge and experience they gain during the lifecycle of > that project will be invaluable to the OpenSolaris commons in general, even if > it proves to be a failure. > > > Glynn
Aren't there some projects that might logically be owned by more than one CG? For example, the Starter Kit project would make sense under the Academic and Research Community, the Documentation community, the Advocacy CG and possible more. Why force it to align with on CG?
