Stephen Lau wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to object to the latest change made to the homepage: the > free CD icon. > > We had worked out an agreement with Tim Cramer before to have > homepage content reviewed by the website group. Michelle's use of the > review process for the Feature Spot block on the homepage has worked > quite successfully (and I'd argue without any noticeable delays for her) > within the framework of this review process. > > The last time this happened (with the Virtualbox/OpenStorage > callout boxes), we again worked out a successful arrangement with Tim > Cramer to have the "Sun Sponsored Links" area in the homepage which Sun > was free to use for any and all content it wished. > > While I'm not opposed to having an icon to request a free CD > (anything to further OpenSolaris adoption is fine by me), I must object > to yet another blatant disregard of the policies and process we've > setup. I'd like to raise this up to the OGB, but thought I would bring > it up first in our group discussion list to see if anyone else would > like to bring it up to the OGB instead. We have quite a few > Contributors and Core Contributors on this list who I imagine share my > concerns. > > Bottom line: We've got policies and process that work. Let's use them. >
Stephen, I have already asked Bonnie for clarification on how this change came about. I'd like to understand if the blatant disregard is unintentional, misguided, accidental or just plain arrogant -- I'm trying to give her (and others?) the benefit of the doubt. I'd like to give her a day or so to respond, and I'll be more than happy to bring this up to the OGB myself with some facts in hand. I completely concur that this is a violation of the agreements that were made between many parties, Mr. Cramer included. I am astounded that the memory here is so short for folks. November, 2007 was a banner month for ill-will generation and negative press for this "community". Honestly, though, what's the remediation? I mean, really? It's become the *other* elephant in the room. Mark _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
