On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Mark Martin<storycrafter at gmail.com> wrote: >> Peter Tribble wrote: >>> >>> 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 ... " > > Good point. That's why these things get reviewed. OK: > > 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 > 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 good > case for one of the other options within the next 30 days, the OGB will > ask the website community to terminate the community group, following > the procedure set forth here: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/web/infrastructure-setup/ > > (I've also changed it to "make a good case" - we need to be sure that > if it does get revitalized then it won't just get left to rot as soon as it's > been rescued.) > > I plan to send this as is to all the listed communities, with the exception of > Chinese Users (has no mail list). For Approachability I'll add a note that > we've had communication from its leadership that it should go. This should > also go to somewhere common (osol-discuss or osol-announce?) so that > people who aren't currently members of the affected communities but who > may wish to participate in the process can do so.
Hi Peter - This looks good to me now. I agree, it should also go to common places. I think osol-discuss and osol-announce are appropriate. Thank you for taking the lead on this. Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva/ @bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
