* Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> [2007-05-04 12:09]: > Following on the discussion from this week's call and previous > mail about what to do with the Community Groups without Core > Contributors.
> Appliances > Approachability 1 > Databases 0 > Games 0 > HPC Developer 0 > Immigrants 2 > Storage 0 > Systems Administrators 0 I'll have to go through my notes, but the above CGs went through the community proposal process, while the below CGs were grandfathered. > Chinese Users 0 > Device Drivers 0 > GNU Solaris 0 > Observability 0 > Printing 0 > Volume Manager 0 > Unix File Systems (UFS) 0 > That leaves these communities which those proposals would have continue > but which don't have the required number of contributors: > > - Approachability > - Databases > - Device Drivers > - Games > - HPC > - Printing > - Storage > - System Administrators > > These communities don't seem to overlap with any of our other existing > communities, so I propose we give them a chance to reform themselves. > > Each community mailing list would be sent a message asking the community > to nominate 3 or more initial Core Contributors, and a Facilitator (who > may be one of the Core Contributors) to notify the OGB of future grants. > > The communities will be given 30 days to present a list of nominations to > the OGB - for any that do not do so, a message will be posted to > opensolaris-announce giving the community at large another 30 days to > present a proposal for reforming the community. If no acceptable proposals > are reached in that time, the OGB will decide how to dispose of the > community. I would like to get the Approachability CG straightened out: it was to combine the ease-of-use efforts for projects like NWAM, the interoperability efforts (mostly regarding name service support vis-a-vis windows), basic system installation and management, and "missing features", which ends up mostly being about FOSS integration. Accordingly, I'd like to get the Core Contributor list for the Approachability CG to reflect that. An initial list would resemble - Dave Miner (dminer); Install and Packaging - John Beck (jbeck); Networking/NWAM - Stephen Hahn (sch); SMF/., ./sfwnv - David Powell (dep); SMF/Visual Panels - Doug Leavitt (djl); ./[various naming projects] with additions from Desktop/JDS and others likely. - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
