Alan DuBoff wrote: > My reccomendation is to have only 1 core contributer, Garrett.
The constitution [1] requires a minimum of 3. Given that Garrett, Murayama and Juergen all have Core Contributor status from the OGB, I would be tempted to name them as the three initial Core Contributors of the Device Driver community. > 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. It's up to each community what sort of contributions count towards status, so it's not changing the rules if you haven't made any yet. I believe that contributions such as Max teaching and writing documentation on device driver writing are just as important to the vital functioning of the community as actually writing the code. > 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. Since Device Drivers doesn't own a consolidation of it's own, just integrates to consolidations such as ON, it doesn't really seem to get a vote on who can do a putback - certainly Core Contributor status in a community is not tied to putback rights in any consolidation I'm aware of. > 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? The definitions from the constitution [1] are: 3.3.2 Contributor. A participant who has been acknowledged by one or more Community Groups as having substantively contributed toward accomplishing the tasks of that Community Group, or by the OGB for at-large contributions, shall be termed an OpenSolaris Contributor. Such designation is permanent and persists regardless of the person's current level of activity or status within the Community. A Contributor may request that their status not be published or published only in the form of a pseudonym that is unique within the Community. 3.3.3 Core Contributor. A Contributor who is an active and sustained contributor to any Community Group and accepts designation as such by said Group shall be termed a Core Contributor for said Group and granted the status of Member for the OpenSolaris Community as a whole. 7.7. Contributors. The Contributors of a Community Group shall include every person who has been designated by the Core Contributors of that Group to have contributed substantively to that Group's efforts, including (but not limited to) every person who has contributed intellectual property to the OpenSolaris Community as a result of those efforts. 7.8. Core Contributors. The initial Core Contributors of a Community Group shall be determined by the OGB when the Community Group is initiated; thereafter, the Core Contributors shall consist of those Participants that have accepted the Group's designation as a Core Contributor for that Group. Designation as a Core Contributor requires nomination of a Participant by an existing Core Contributor, followed by a Group decision by consensus vote to approve that designation, and finally acceptance of the designation by the Participant. Each such designation shall hold for a period of two (2) years, or until that Core Contributor's earlier resignation, removal, or death. In addition, each designation of Core Contributor status results in a grant of Member status for the OpenSolaris Community as a whole, with a duration of two (2) years from the date of said grant, as described in sections 4.2 and 4.3 above. A Core Contributor may be removed by consensus vote of the other Core Contributors or by expulsion from the OpenSolaris Community. [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
