On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:06:34PM +0200, Mark Phalan wrote:
> Does this imply that other project teams (such as Kerberos) who work on
> ONNV projects should also be added as contributors?
As Contributors, yes. The Constitution requires this; section 7.7
reads:
# The Contributors of a Community Group shall include every person
# who has been designated by the Core Contributors of that Group
# to have contributed substantively to that Group's efforts,
# including (but not limited to) every person who has contributed
# intellectual property to the OpenSolaris Community as a result
# of those efforts.
The use of the term 'intellectual property' is unfortunate since it is
not defined, but I think it's reasonable to read the intent of this
language to include contributions of source code, documentation, and
possibly other material.
It is not necessary, nor in my view appropriate, to name all such
individuals Core Contributors. I would tend to reserve that
classification for, perhaps, technical leaders of large-scale projects
and those who have made and contributed revolutionary technical
advances, as well as those who have provided superlative leadership
over a long period of time. However, the specific criteria for the
grant are up to your Community Group; I don't see anything giving the
OGB the authority to overrule you.
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