On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
I don't see them here though...????
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=79
They were sent to just the community leaders, not to the mailing lists of
each community.
So, I would have to agree that if you sent out messages to the dozen
leaders of the Device Driver community and didn't get one single response,
that is defunct.
I find those odds incredibly amazing...who would've thought...?
To the leaders of the communities - I've attached one of the ones I got,
which was cc'ed to you and the other leaders of the Device Driver community
as you can see in it's header.
In case that missed anyone, a later call went out to opensolaris-discuss
and opensolaris-code:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/022870.html
Well, that was sent to osol-discuss, not the leaders.
Very much so - we've all been wondering why you didn't respond.
But not just me. There's a dozen leaders in the community, not one
responded...go figure...several have been involved since the pilot.
I found it very odd and have said so repeatedly before. This was brought
up when the previous OGB had to step in and name Garrett D'Amore, Masayuki
Murayama, and Juergen Keil as core contributors because the Device Drivers
community had failed to do so:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=103808
I find it odd also. In fact, I think it shows a reluctance to work with
the community at large, in the way it was handled. If you ever wonder why
folks don't feel comfortable, this type of situation doesn't give most the
warm fuzzies.
Of course, Device Drivers seems like a valid community, so the OGB is more
likely to agree to a proposal to establish a valid set of Contributors to
run it than to shut it down - but for now, there is no one who can claim to
speak for the Device Drivers community or vote to take action on it's behalf.
I would do it without asking anyone in the community also, that's the way
to do it...yeah, that's the way...
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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
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