On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Mark Martin wrote:

> Peter Tribble wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:56 PM, John Plocher<john.plocher at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Peter Tribble<peter.tribble at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Bucket 1 - those "communities" that have never had any core contributors
>>>> 
>>>> Appliances > Chinese Users > Databases > Games
>>>> HPC > Observability > SVM > UFS
>>>> 
>>>> Bucket 2 - those that have no current core contributors
>>>> 
>>>> Approachability > Printing > PowerPC (only has 1)
>>>> 
>> ...
>> 
>>> I'd suggest a formulaic email be sent to each targeted group, maybe
>>> something like:
>>> 
>>> According to the constitution, this community should be terminated due
>>> to its not having at least 3 core contributors.  The OGB can deal with
>>> such groups by
>>>    A) Terminating them (see _website_doc_url_ for what this means)
>>>    B) Designating at least 3 new Core Contributors in order to
>>> revitalize the community, or
>>>    C) Merge this group with another.
>>> 
>>> The OGB is biased towards, and will choose "termination", unless the
>>> community members themselves step up and make a case for one the other
>>> options within the next 30 days.
>>> 
>> 
>> A modification of the form of words:
>> 
>> The foo community has less than the required minimum of 3 Core Contributors
>> to govern its affairs and, according to the constitution, should be 
>> terminated.
>> The OpenSolaris Governing Board can deal with the situation by:
>>     A) Terminating the community (see _website_doc_url_ for what this 
>> means)
>>     B) Designating at least 3 new Core Contributors in order to
>> revitalize the community, or
>>     C) Merge this community with another (possibly as a project).
>> 
>> Unless the community members themselves step up and make a case for one of
>> the other options within the next 30 days, the OGB will recommend 
>> termination.
>>
>> 
> Small nit:  to whom is the OGB recommending?  Just where does the buck stop? 
> "recommend termination" -> "take appropriate steps to ... "

I believe that would be to the website team, who will take down
the community and disable any email aliases.

Valerie
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Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva/ @bubbva
Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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