OGB election season is approaching again, so it's time to begin our
annual review of Contributor & Core Contributor grants for the X community.
(We can grant either of these statuses at any time, the election just serves
as an annual reminder to go back and look at the past year's worth of work.)
As a reminder, in the current system, anyone who contributes in either code
or other activities is named a Contributor, which doesn't expire. Those who
are deemed by the community to have contributed most, and who agree to it, can
be named Core Contributors. Core Contributor status expires after two years,
but can be renewed if the contribution level is still present.
When formal votes are taken, either of the X community or of the OpenSolaris
community as a whole (such as votes to name Contributors/Core Contribs, or
the annual OGB elections), only Core Contributors get to cast ballots.
(If this sounds over complicated, then you're in agreement with the OGB,
who is working on a proposed overhaul to the OpenSolaris Constitution
to simplify this, as well as splitting voting rights in a community group .
See ogb-discuss mail & the OGB Agendas/Minutes for
more details there.)
The current Core Contributors of the X community are:
alanc Alan Coopersmith Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
bochnig Martin Bochnig Expires: 2010-02-05 10:49:27
jacotton Jay Cotton Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
moinakg Moinak Ghosh Expires: 2010-02-05 10:49:01
skk Stuart Kreitman Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
The current Contributors of the X community (which we decided on last year
and I failed to submit to the OGB secretary - very sorry about that):
Carl Switzky
David Marx
Harishankar Singhyadav
Henry Zhao
Jeremy Uejio
John Fischer
John Martin
Kim Tran
Leena Gunda
Lokanath Das
Mahmood Ali
Niveditha Rau
Sam Lau
plus all the above listed Core Contributors.
Since we're supposed to automatically grant Contributor status to anyone
who "has contributed intellectual property to the OpenSolaris Community",
here's the list of people who have done commits to either the open source
portions of the Nevada X gate or one of the FOX project gates in 2008:
Nevada gate (open source portions only):
Alan Coopersmith 184
Martin Bochnig 1
Carl Switzky 1
Minskey Guo 1
Lokanath Das 9
Glynn Foster 1
Henry Zhao 4
Javier Acosta 2
Jay Cotton 24
Kim Tran 4
Mahmood Ali 9
Moinak Ghosh 1
Niveditha Rau 49
John Martin 2
Sam Lau 10
Srirama Sharma 1
Stefan Teleman 5
Stuart Kreitman 9
Takao Fujiwara 1
Jeremy Y Uejio 7
Wei William Xue 9
FOX gate (minus commits that were also done to the Nevada gate):
Alan Coopersmith 4
Martin Bochnig 49
Moinak Ghosh 26
FOX-7.4-merge gate (minus commits that were also done to the other gates):
Alan Coopersmith 92
Jay Cotton 36
Niveditha Rau 7
Stuart Kreitman 1
Thus I'd like to nominate the Core Contributors whose status is about to
expire for another two years as Core Contributors:
alanc Alan Coopersmith Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
jacotton Jay Cotton Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
skk Stuart Kreitman Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
and additionally nominate as a new Core Contributor, Niveditha Rau.
For approval, each nominee must receive +1's (votes in favor) from at
least 3 existing Core Contributors, and no -1's (votes against) from any
existing Core Contributors, as well as accept their election.
I vote +1 for all four. (Yes, I'm voting for myself.)
I also name as new automatically recognized Contributors:
Glynn Foster
Javier Acosta
Minskey Guo
Srirama Sharma
Stefan Teleman
Takao Fujiwara
Wei William Xue
Does anyone have any other nominations for either Contributor or Core
Contributor? (It's okay to nominate yourself if you'd like to be recognized
for contributions other than putbacks or if my counting script overlooked you.)
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
