Re: [osol-discuss] Ideas for Recognition to Build Reputation

2006-01-09 Thread James Carlson
Glynn Foster writes: On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 09:34 -0500, James Carlson wrote: I still think it looks rather cheesy. First of all, there's the plain old clutter problem. I wasn't thrilled with the excess of the CDDL language (the original two-line copyright notice, though slightly

Re: [osol-discuss] Ideas for Recognition to Build Reputation

2006-01-09 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Christopher Mahan wrote: Jim, how about giving them a @opensolaris.org email address? I know some people that treasure their @apache.org addy. Humm. This is interesting. I seem to remember this coming up with the early governance discussions (either in the pilot or afterwards). I'll check.

Re: [osol-discuss] Ideas for Recognition to Build Reputation

2006-01-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was suggesting that putting names into the source code was occasional rather than be the norm [for example, when you create a new file], When you like to add names into the source, you would need to do this for External people and for Sun people in the

Re: [osol-discuss] Ideas for Recognition to Build Reputation

2006-01-06 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Glynn Foster wrote: So, from a development point of view, I was somewhat surprised, having never really looked at the ON code before, that there's no recognition of people who wrote the code in the source files. Are we unusual in this respect? How do other open source communities do it?

Re: [osol-discuss] Ideas for Recognition to Build Reputation

2006-01-06 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 09:34 -0500, James Carlson wrote: I still think it looks rather cheesy. First of all, there's the plain old clutter problem. I wasn't thrilled with the excess of the CDDL language (the original two-line copyright notice, though slightly annoying, was comparatively

[osol-discuss] Ideas for Recognition to Build Reputation

2006-01-05 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Hi, guys. We are 7 months into the project now, we are entering a new year, and I think it's time start recognizing community members who are contributing and participating in OpenSolaris. If you have an opinion on this, read on ... There's a lot going on around here. More than 10,000

Re: [osol-discuss] Ideas for Recognition to Build Reputation

2006-01-05 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:24 -0800, Jim Grisanzio wrote: So, what can we do to start recognizing more people more consistently? And what is a reasonable list of items to recognize? Code for sure, but we have other community members participating within communities/projects, running

Re: [osol-discuss] Ideas for Recognition to Build Reputation

2006-01-05 Thread Frank Hofmann - OP/N1 RPE
[ ... ] of people who wrote the code in the source files. Sure, there's probably some Teamware logs, but that doesn't feel as public as something like a ChangeLog [1] or author credits in the source code headers. I'm not with you on that. The Solaris sourcecode is the product of the hard work