> Perhaps our view of the world is too simplistic also; > surely there > are projects which straddle many boundaries and > projects which have > sub projects or communities which have special > interest groups.
Too simplistic? When I read all of the comments here, I thought to myself: "boy did you guys OVERCOMPLICATE it!!!" Communities??? What??? Communities with Projects??? Who??? Where??? What??? Why??? How??? HUH?????... Just leaves one scratching one's head in confusion. It's real simple: if someone like Masayuki Murayama or Jurgen Keil or Roland Mainz can't be recognized as a core contributor, then something is very, very wrong with the current system, almost to the point of losing confidence in that system. Projects is also a problematic criteria: a project might sound great, but deliver *zilch* or "vaporware". Whether a project is or is not deemed core or important for OpenSolaris should be a concensus. Until then, a project is just a pretty description on opensolaris.org, and vaporware if nothing is delivered. What that means is, in the absence of software being released from projects, who fixed how many bugs is what should be the criteria on who is a "core contributor" and who isn't. At least from the non-Sun side. I'm all for engineering and processes, but let's keep it simple where we don't have to have it complex. And the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that we should *DITCH* current criteria for what makes a contributor core one. That should be a matter of direct democracy and a concensus among the whole OpenSolaris communitty. And we all know who fixed the most bugs and delivered the most contributions to OpenSolaris as far as non-Sun members go. Cold hard data is right here on opensolaris.org pages. All contributions are accounted for. > We need some form to organize, but it's not easy to > see if there is > a proper simple model. See above. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
