Roy T. Fielding wrote: > In accordance with Article VIII of the OpenSolaris Constitution, > public votes are required for release plans and release decisions > within any project governed by an OpenSolaris Community Group. > A release is defined as any packaged distribution intended for > people outside the originating community. > > Failure to follow that process is grounds for dissolution of the > community and reorganization of its work in a form that will > obey the rules by which we agreed to form this organization. > None of the projects governed by the Desktop Community have > demonstrated any sense of awareness of these rules, and Project > Indiana has deliberately ignored them on several occasions.
What other projects of the Desktop Community besides Indiana have violated these rules? If it is just Indiana, why is the Desktop community alone singled out of the 3 communities sponsoring Indiana? As for taking action, the OGB bears part of the blame in not educating the communities that existed before the adoption of the Constitution in the changes required by the Constitution. Glynn has a draft set of guidelines and responsibilities for Community Groups that we were working on over the summer, but have not yet finalized nor sent to the communities. Given that, I'd say going straight to dissolution without warning them of their missteps and giving them a chance to correct is hasty. If this is indeed solely about Indiana, I'd suggest a better course of action is to: 1) Inform all three of Indiana's sponsoring communities about the release plans requirement of the constitution. 2) Make sure this is covered in the community guidelines we're drafting and hurry up finishing and disseminating those. 3) Remove the Release Timeline diagram and information from the front page of http://opensolaris.org/ until either Project Indiana complies with the constitutional requirements or a constitutional amendment to change those requirements is put forth and adopted. If those do not resolve the matter, then we can discuss dissolving communities or projects that are knowingly breaching the requirements. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
