(following up to ogb-discuss, since -announce is an announcement only list)
Michal Bielicki wrote: > Stephen Lau wrote: >> Just a friendly reminder, as some people were unaware. The process >> for proposing and creating new community groups changed slightly when >> the constitution was voted on and approved. The new policy is >> described on the communities page at: >> http://opensolaris.org/os/communities >> >> Relevant text here: >> >> Community members can propose new Community Groups by writing to the >> ogb-discuss list outlining items such as goals, technical scope, >> potential participants, leaders, and activities. Proposals need to >> list at least 3 current Core Contributors who are nominating the >> community, at least 3 participants who will become the initial Core >> Contributors of the new community, and one person who will serve as >> the community's Facilitator. Further details on Community creation and >> governance can be found in Article VII of the OpenSolaris Constitution. >> >> cheers, >> steve (on behalf of the OGB) > There seems to be one thing that I do not really understand. If I want > to propose a new group I need 3 existing Core Contributors to which > group ? My current intention is to propose a group for software porters > who work on porting projects to solaris/opensolaris. So I need now 3 > pople that are already contributors in other groups/projects to suggest > this ? Or am I missing something here ? The 3 people should be core contributors - it doesn't matter where their grant comes from, so they can be from any other community group. http://poll.opensolaris.org lists the contributor grants and who is a core contributor in what community. cheers, steve -- stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development
