On Dec 12, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: > Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> That doesn't make any sense. It is the responsibility of the >> existing >> core to nominate those who have earned it. If they don't, they are >> not caring for the future of that community. At Apache, asking for >> core or committer status is a cultural faux pas --- almost guaranteed >> to delay the grant. Perhaps this is one of those areas where open >> source cultural norms are different from solaris engineering norms >> and we need to adjust habits. > > And asking for membership in GNOME is encouraged, because it shows > you have a > vested interest in the community and being more involved in the day > to day > governance, rather than having it forced on you when you really > only care about > writing code. > > It works both ways, and OpenSolaris is neither Apache or GNOME - it > needs to > find it's own self as a community.
I don't think membership in GNOME is comparable (this is more like asking to be the release manager for some component within GNOME). But you are right that this is a cultural norm that varies by organization. ....Roy
