Shawn Walker wrote: > On 31/10/2007, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> >>>> MC wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Not that I care for bureaucracy, and not that I >>>>> >>>>> >>>> know what is happening here, but... >>>> >>>> >>>>> I think if you strong-arm past the OpenSolaris >>>>> >>>>> >>>> community bureaucracy (and again, not saying you are, >>>> because I don't know much about it), it'll be >>>> archived forever and referenced in the future to show >>>> how Sun only takes said OpenSolaris bureaucracy >>>> seriously when it is convenient for them. >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Context? >>>> >>>> >>> Where's the pointer to formal buy-in by the OGB for the use of Indiana as >>> _the_ OpenSolaris reference distro? >>> >>> >> There was none. >> The OGB was not formally consulted. Several of us made our concerns >> known as individual voices, but that apparently had no effect. >> >>> Where's at least a broad _agreement_ between Sun and the OGB that >>> a program will be developed to (a) define what constitutes a compatible >>> distro, and (b) allow compatible distros to use the OpenSolaris trademark? >>> >>> >> There is none. >> >>> Possibly not necessary to have, but certainly polite and >>> credibility-enhancing, >>> IMO. >>> >>> >> Indeed, it would have been polite, wouldn't it. >> > > The important thing to remember here is that no official decision has > been made. Instead of a bunch of people running around grumpy, let's > take this opportunity to ensure that we participate in the branding > and trademark discussion taking place on trademark-policy-dev. > > Before we have something truly official, the advocacy community (and > possibly others) need to propose something to the OGB and then a vote > needs to happen. > Is this in the charter? What happens if the advocacy community votes and approves it?
Personally, I would rather it just happened as it would slightly reduce the world daily total of spam :) > Remember that Sun can use the trademark in whatever way they choose > but they don't control the communities here. Instead of acting as if > Sun has made any decisions for you, use the abilities given to you by > the constitution you voted for. > > 1) Get involved in the discussion, be a part of the process > > Yes. But keep it short an sweet. The endless debate so far is only going around in circles. Use your last dying breath to add some code :) > 2) Get the relevant communities to form a proper proposal that > reflects the results of that process > Isn't that already happening? > 3) Get the core contributors votes for it > Yes 'core' from the relevent community i.e. advocacy. > 4) Propose it to the OGB > Why? It should be proposed to Sun rather than the OGB. They own the trademark. > 5) Have a community vote > Why? So far I have seen almost zero comments from core contributes from other communities. Is there really interest? Doug _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
