On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 02:54:16PM -0700, David Powell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 01:30:00PM -0600, Bonnie Corwin wrote: > > So I think we have cycled back to where we started and where we > > currently are: two tiers of sponsors with requirements for both tiers. > > > > If we leave the current program alone and don't open it up, how do we > > address the problem of requests not getting picked up in a reasonable > > amount of time? > > Firstly, the pool of eligible tier-2 sponsors is a *lot* larger than > our current set of tier-2 sponsors. One thing to consider is more > active recruitment. > > Secondly, I think the proposal that Mike Kupfer had -- subject to the > constraint I placed in the other branch of this conversation -- would > work fine. To be clear, the tier-1/2 "owner" would the primary > contact for the contributor, and the tier-3 "intern" would act mostly > as an observer and would handle the internal mechanics (building, > testing, putting back). I realize this doesn't offload all the > owner's work, but you simply cannot do that and have a system which > works. It should offload *enough* of the work -- the vast majority > in most cases -- to encourage greater involvement from the sponsors > we do have.
+1. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development
