On Nov 2, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Ben Rockwood wrote: > Could please elaborate? The grounds for termination of a community > group by the OGB are: > > *7.12. Termination.* A Community Group is terminated by act of the > OGB or by reduction of its named Core Contributors to a number less > than three (3). [...]
That is the procedure. The "grounds" are the basis for initiating the procedure. The OGB doesn't actually require any grounds other than what is in the best interests of OpenSolaris as a whole. > I do not see stipulation in Articles VII or VIII to support your > appeal. A specific citation of the constitution to > support this appeal is appreciated. 7.1. Purpose. In order to promote a diversity of activities within the OpenSolaris Community and to provide a means for self-governance within those activities, the OpenSolaris Community is held to be composed of Community Groups that are initiated by the OGB for the purpose of focused management and accomplishment of a given set of activities. Community Groups are, in turn, responsible for initiating and managing projects to accomplish those activities. ... 7.10. Meetings. Each Community Group is considered "in meeting" from the moment it is initiated by the OGB to the moment it is terminated. All Community Group meetings shall take place using asynchronous collaboration mechanisms, such as electronic mailing lists, that are open to the public for read access, archived for later review, and able to accept communication from all participants such that it is reasonably believed to be delivered to all participants in a timely manner. In addition, each Community Group shall be assigned an archived private mailing list for limited use by the Community Group's Core Contributors for discussion of matters related to pre-publication security defects in products managed by the Community Group, nominations to Core Contributor status, and other personnel issues for which public discussion is inappropriate. Non-public discussion related to the Community Group, such as in-person meetings or private communication, shall not be considered part of the Community Group activities unless or until a record of such discussion is made available via the normal meeting mechanism. A decision shall be an act of the Community Group when an issue is discussed within the ongoing Community Group meeting, a specific proposal is made to that meeting, and such proposal is agreed to in accordance with the Community Group voting procedure defined in Article VIII. .... and all of Article VIII. Please don't ask me to define "release" as anything other than what it means in legal terms: to let go outside one's own sphere of control. It means the same for press release, software release, public release, beta release, alpha release, preview release, or catch and release. To release is the most important decision made by an open source project because it is the point at which they are most likely to be subject to the laws regarding copyright, trademark, and patent infringement, not to mention architectural commitments. It is therefore required that a vote take place and that at least three public +1s be received from the core contributors. ....Roy
