Stephen Lau wrote:
Simon Phipps wrote:
On Jan 21, 2009, at 06:13, Stephen Lau wrote:
Here's my proposed statement:
The OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) observed with dismay last
week, Sun's failure to abide by the homepage review policy setup,
and agreed upon in good faith by both the OGB and Sun Microsystems
(via its OGB Liason) earlier this year. While it was subsequently
removed a few days later, we are disappointed that Sun felt it
necessary to breach its previous agreement. We, again, encourage
Sun to be a good corporate citisen of the OpenSolaris community it
helped create, and to work within the processes setup and agreed
upon by both parties.
short, and to the point. I'd really like to add something like, "To
this end, we hope that Sun will be more transparent in opening up
content editorship to trusted community members so that this
incident won't be repeated in the future.", but that's my personal
idea that should certainly be debated a bit at tomorrow's meeting.
cheers,
steve
Reading all this serially as the mail trickled in :-)
I suggest being more positive about the revert, and not attempting to
control "Sun". I thought your earlier idea of requesting web access
for some more people so incorrect changes can be reverted in future
was a better idea.
How about:
"The OGB notes that changes made to the OpenSolaris.org home page did
not comply with the agreements the OGB has made in the past with
Sun's offical liaison when, on two previous occasions, changes were
made without community consensus. We are very pleased these changes
were reverted pending review by the Website group, but we request
that the Website group take steps to ensure that a wider range of
members have write access to the home page to ensure that future
incidents (if they happen, which we hope will not be the case) are
reverted faster."
I'd be fine with that statement.
--adding website-discuss--
I'm not a voting member of OGB, but I think the statement above should
not go to osol-announce, see my rewrite below. According to the current
Constitution section 8.6, OGB should not even continue review of this
case because the Website CG already revisited the original decision.
Ignoring the Constitution for a moment, if there is a regression in a
code gate, we don't announce it to the at-large community and this (in
my mind) is no different from a regression. Yes, we've had three, but
we've also committed hundreds and hundreds of changes since July without
escalation, the above message completely overlooks that, skews the
context, and also potentially takes us down the bad path of OGB advising
CGs and Projects on how they give write access to their code. So, I
suggest the following rewrite:
"The OGB notes that changes made to the OpenSolaris.org common pages and
navigation elements up until last week, were successfully delivered
using the agreed upon review process implemented by the Website CG in
July 2008 (see
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/website/content/plan/). OGB has
requested a large number of changes to the common pages of the site to
bring it up-to-date and all were executed well, without escalation, to
the delight of the community at large. We commend the Website CG for
their hard work in this obviously tricky area.
Unfortunately, last week's change to a main navigation element for the
Free CD did not comply with the agreements the OGB has made in the past
with Sun's official liaison when, on two previous occasions, changes
were made without prior community review resulting in escalation and
implementation of the review process noted above. We are very pleased
these changes were reverted pending review by the Website group, but we
request that Sun's official liaison take steps to ensure that the
process for review is carried out for all changes to common pages except
the Sun-sponsored links section in the future."
Regards,
Michelle
cheers,
steve
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stephen lau | [email protected] | www.whacked.net
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