On Nov 28, 2007 3:16 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith writes: > > Alan Burlison wrote: > > > In fact I can > > > see no real reason for the OGB being mentioned in the document at all. > > > The only part it seems to play is the announcement of the Project, > > > something that could just as easily be performed by either the CG or > the > > > new Project itself. > > > > The OGB's role is limited to acting on the request of the community to > set > > up the project resources and announce that it has done so. Both of > those > > have been delegated, as noted in section 3 of that document, to Eric > > Boutilier. The OGB only gets involved now when something goes wrong. > > AltAlan's point -- and I agree with it -- is that it's quite apparent > that many people reading that document haven't the foggiest what that > text actually means. > > To them, it looks like the OGB "approves" projects, and that's why we > keep getting those plaintive and misdirected email messages to approve > the FooBar Project. > > I agree with making this document clearer. It should explicitly say > that the OGB itself doesn't approve projects, and that you (the > project proposer) need to find and talk to the appropriate community > group (or groups ...), and then get that group's facilitator to talk > to Eric. The OGB seems to provide a centralized registration facility for newly approved projects. Would this be a better way of wording it? > > > -- > James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> > Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 > MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20071128/71a9b748/attachment.html>
