Alan Coopersmith wrote: > [Added ogb-discuss, since that's where any real change has to > happen - opensolaris-discuss will get you nothing useful.] > > Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > >> Within the OpenSolaris community, we have some arbitrary >> designations we give to people - contributor and community >> leader are amongst these. > > > Contributor is defined by the OpenSolaris constitution. > Leader is an artifact of the website tools, and really means > "Person who can edit website" - that's the only extra permissions, > powers, or duties that they get. > >> I'd like to propose that how "contributor" status is designated >> such that it is granted to anyone and everyone that is in a >> position to do a putback or commit to the OpenSolaris code base. > > > Then you need to propose an amendment to the OpenSolaris constitution > we all just ratified. It currently states: > > Contributor. A participant who has been acknowledged by one or > more Community Groups as having substantively contributed toward > accomplishing the tasks of that Community Group, or by the OGB for > at-large contributions, shall be termed an OpenSolaris Contributor. > Such designation is permanent and persists regardless of the person's > current level of activity or status within the Community. A > Contributor > may request that their status not be published or published only in > the form of a pseudonym that is unique within the Community. > > What would you like to change it to? And why would that be better > than just asking the various Communities such as ON, Desktop, Storage, > etc. to name the appropriate people as Contributors?
Ultimately, I'd like to see it removed. *Everyone* should be a contributor or able to be one. I don't think we need (or should need) arbitrary "badges" to stick on people that are otherwise meaningless. Or at least that is the model I think we should be aspiring to. >> Right now, this would mean that all of those inside Sun who work >> on Solaris would immediately be given "Contributor" status. > > > Could you even come up with a complete list of those people, > short of just giving us a data dump of the entire Sun employee > database? I surely couldn't, even if I thought this was a good idea. About the best I could come up with would be to do a dump of people in the software part of the organisation that have the relevant employee level (I think Z*?) to indicate they're an engineer and not a mangler. >> The benefit here is that there are some things that only >> "contributors" appear to be able to do and what they can't >> do only serves as a barrier for them to properly engage in >> various OpenSolaris communities. > > > As far as I know there is nothing we've intentionally set up that > only Contributors can do. I know the person setting up the Code > Review site chose to make it Contributor only - as far as I know, > he decided to do that on his own, without consulting the OGB. And this is the basis of my comment. I wasn't aware that the cr.opensolaris.org wasn't actually part of the OGB direction. I'd encourage the OGB to consider taking action to make the code review site, cr.opensolaris.org, more easily available to a greater number of community members. Darren
