Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > >> Ultimately, I'd like to see it removed. >> *Everyone* should be a contributor or able to be one. > > > Then you're basically redefining it to be the same as "Participant", > which is anyone who filled out the registration form on opensolaris.org, > including those who did so just to get the free media kit with no plans > to ever participate, but met the Sun marketing goal of increasing the > number of people they could claim were "Participants" in the OpenSolaris > community.
That is a problem for the OGB to take up with Sun - i.e does OpenSolaris let itself be used by Sun like that in future? Ideally those people could be deleted as "participants" and Sun spanked. >> 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. > > > That would require spending time talking to lawyers to make sure it > didn't violate the privacy laws in any of the countries Sun does business > in, and would grant far too many people access that have nothing to do > with OpenSolaris. I'm sure that query could be further refined to just fetch out those who are in the Solaris part of the org... Darren
