(Credit to Alan Coopersmith and Liane-- from whom I've cribbed some of this)
OGB election season is approaching again, so it's time to begin our annual
review of Contributor & Core Contributor grants for the Zones community.
See "BACKGROUND" below for more background on this process.
At this time I would also like to propose that we merge the BrandZ and
Zones communities. These two activities are interrelated, and it's
easiest if I start with the merger first.
1. PROPOSED BRANDZ COMMUNITY MERGER
All contributor grants for the BrandZ community are due to expire this month.
I would like to propose the merger of the BrandZ community into the Zones
community at this time. This is in some ways reflective of the work done
in the past two years by Jerry Jelinek to broaden the scope of the BrandZ
infrastructure. Today, all zones are branded (even "native" ones). And
the same team now owns the charter for both technologies.
Having spoken to several of the core contributors of the zones community,
the BrandZ community, and to an OGB member, I am at this time recommending
that we utilize article 7.12 ("Termination", see below) of the OpenSolaris
Constitution, and allow all of the contributor grants in the BrandZ
community to expire. This will terminate the community.
The communities will forward to the OGB their recommendation that, under
article 7.12, the BrandZ community's contents should be merged with the
Zones community. We will ensure that web content related to BrandZ is not
lost, and the brandz-discuss mailing list will continue on. That is to
say, except for less bureaucratic overhead, everything will be the same as
before. The zones community will take extend sponsorship to all projects
sponsored by the BrandZ community. No specific changes to the "project"
structure are proposed here, only a reparenting.
For reference, article 7.12 states:
7.12. Termination. A Community Group is terminated by act of
the OGB or by reduction of its named Core Contributors to a
number less than three (3). Upon termination, the OGB may
re-initiate the Community Group with a new set of Core
Contributors or reassign the resources that were assigned to
the Community Group, such as mailing lists, forums, and website
information, to the at-large community or to some other
Community Group of the OGB's choosing.
(http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance)
2. PROPOSED GRANTS
The current grants for the zones and BrandZ communities are as follows.
All grants are due to expire this month.
login name Status Community
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allan Allan McKillop core contrib zones
annt Ann Togasaki core contrib zones
dp Daniel Price core contrib zones
comay David Comay core contrib zones
gjelinek Jerry Jelinek core contrib zones
mgerdts Mike Gerdts core contrib zones
stevelaw Steve Lawrence core contrib zones
jeffv Jeff Victor contributor zones
pcotten Penelope Cotten contributor zones
richlowe Richard Lowe contributor zones
edp Edward Pilatowicz core contrib brandz
nilsn Nils Nieuwejaar core contrib brandz
rab Russell Blaine core contrib brandz
kucharsk William Kucharski core contrib brandz
ahl Adam H. Leventhal contributor brandz
jcm Jerri-Ann Meyer contributor brandz
hannken Jurgen Hannken-Illj contrib. brandz
kirk Kirk Wells contributor brandz
Based on recent contributions, I would like to propose the following
for the resultant merged community. This is a *proposal*. I would like
input:
login name Status Reason
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comay David Comay Emeritus former zones team lead, former CC
dp Daniel Price Core Contrib Renew, still active
gjelinek Jerry Jelinek Core Contrib Renew, still active
stevelaw Steve Lawrence Core Contrib Renew, still active
jeffv Jeff Victor Core Contrib Upgrade, Zones FAQ, Advocacy
pcotten Penelope Cotten Core Contrib Upgrade, Docs author, Zones FAQ
edp Ed Pilatowicz Core Contrib New, Code cont, BrandZ core contrib
flippedb Jordan Vaughan Core Contrib New, Code contributions
richlowe Richard Lowe Contributor Renew
menno Menno Lageman Contributor New, Code contrib, work on Rsrc mgmt.
mgerdts Mike Gerdts Contributor Former core contributor
kucharsk William Kucharski Contributor New, BrandZ core contributor
nilsn Nils Nieuwejaar Contributor New, BrandZ core contributor
rab Russell Blaine Contributor New, BrandZ core contributor
ahl Adam H. Leventhal Contributor New, BrandZ contributor
hannken Jurgen Hannken-Illje Contrib. New, BrandZ contributor
jcm Jerri-Ann Meyer Contributor New, BrandZ contributor
kirk Kirk Wells Contributor New, BrandZ contributor
I would appreciate additional nominations. I've undoubtedly overlooked
someone and don't mean to give offense.
For Core Contributor 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.
Does anyone have any other nominations for either Contributor or Core
Contributor? (Please nominate yourself either publicly or privately if
I've overlooked you.)
I vote +1 for all of the above, and +1 for the proposal to merge.
BACKGROUND:
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 Zones 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 overcomplicated, 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.)
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-dp
