I've gotten response from a few OGB members. Can others take a look at this and see if what I have outlined below is agreeable. I want to make sure we have our ducks in a row before I implement this.
Thanks, Jim Jim Walker wrote: > James Carlson wrote: >> Jim Walker writes: >>> - If we just authorize all contributors, and have a >>> free-for-all approach, I would think the active >>> contributors would get blocked, and we could give >>> people a reason to sign the SCA for the sole >>> purpose of getting access to nice test machines, >>> with no intention of ever contributing to OpenSolaris >>> in anyway. >> I don't see why anyone would bother doing that, but if it's really a >> significant threat, then how about having use limited to users who >> have corresponding open CRs? > > How about if we try the honor system, where contributors just > enter the CR or project they are working on? (ie. just like > we do internally). > > I think this will be useful information to track in terms of > where the community resources are being spent, and contributors > can self police each other when they get blocked from accessing > a resource that is being used by someone who obviously entered > invalid CR or project information or is clearly not associated > with the CR or project they entered. Peer pressure can be very > powerful. > > In addition, many of the test machines will have short reservation > limits of 3-5 days, so resource turnover will be automatic, and we > can implement active run limits in Self-Service Testing, so the > execution queues are not filled with jobs from just one person. > At some point, I may be able to validate CR numbers and list > project names, so the entries are more uniform. > > We could start with this approach and see how it goes. If people > start getting blocked all the time, we can decide, as a community, > what to do next with these shared resources. > > Cheers, > Jim > -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Software, Solaris QE x77744, 500 Eldorado Blvd, Broomfield CO 80021
