On Oct 17, 2007, at 3:05 PM, John Plocher wrote: > As to whether or not Project Indiana can claim to be the OpenSolaris > binary distro, the constitution (3.1) says: > > ...OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) to be responsible for overall > day-to-day operations and representation of the organization to > third parties. The OGB, in turn, delegates the organization and > decision-making for specific OpenSolaris activities, such as > product > development and marketing tasks, through the creation of Community > Groups. > > This pretty clearly says that the Indiana project is completely within > its charter to create a product out of whatever it wants.
Only if it does so within the bounds set by the community scope. Since that project was deliberately created within a community that had no such scope, the OGB is fully capable of shutting it down or reorganizing the community into a more realistic scope and a larger group of Core Contributors working together on a common distribution. That doesn't mean it should, but the notion that the OGB must sit by while the tail wags the dog is not supported by any reading of the constitution. ....Roy
