OGB, Per AlanC's comments last week the device driver community is defunct and/or doesn't have proper representation for the OpenSolaris community.
I talked with AlanC last week and told him I would send a message to OGB discuss. Unfortunately we do not have a lot of strength in terms of experienced ON developers, and none of the leaders listed (myself included) are what I would call a core contributer. (I have just added Garrett D'Amore though) I would like to first understand what type of people the contributers are, there seems to be core contributers and contributers. The only person that I can see being a core contributer is Garrett D'Amore, who I've just added as a leader to the community. It seems there are a lot of leaders that have been added to the device driver community from the China team, but I don't see these folks listed as leader having the strength and/or skills to be called a core contributer. I will be sending a message out to device-driver-discuss so that the community can understand and form the device driver community so we have people to represent us. My reccomendation is to have only 1 core contributer, Garrett. I will also propose that all changes, such as a device driver addition, must be reviewed by specific people of our community, I would like to be one but don't need to be a core contributer and/or even contributer to do that though. Maybe a process where we have a core contributer and 3 code reviewers which require any 2 of the 4 to review code that goes back. AlanC mentioned that we might want to change the rules so that we could allow folks such as Max Brunning to be considered contributers, and to some extent I agree, but I think we should be firm and move slower rather than faster in this regard. If anything I would like to make it more difficult for people to do a putback, and why I think Garrett is the only person we can actually call a core contributer at this point. I would like to start forming our community, and setting up to accept drivers from the community, and I think having just a core contributer and/or a couple more people to review code would be adequate. Can I get an explaination on core contributers vs. contributers and/or what their specific roles are so that we (i.e., device-driver community leaders) can draft up a proposal and/or make the needed changes to have the device driver community represented in opensolaris as a whole? -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
