James Carlson wrote: > John Plocher writes: > >>> Why does the mail system need to distinguish members vs. interns? Why >> >> The mail system doesn't, but something does, if only to keep us out of >> the trap >> of manually maintaining out of date paper lists of people... The mail >> system >> has the benefit of having "list maintenance" tools as well as providing >> value >> in exchange for keeping the lists up to date. > > > We're not so great at that one, either. A quick script check shows > one member on the interest list, 5 interns on the interest list, and > 14 licensees there. > >>> not just have everyone on the same list? Or is the mail list on >> >> There is a bit of "two birds with one stone" here - from a communication >> target, >> members. interns and observers all get the same email stream. >> Segregating them >> into roles lets us also manage voting, case assignments, meeting >> quorums, etc. > > > Unless we have some automated mechanism that's tied to these mailing > lists that actually implements those rules, or at least plans to put > something like that in place, I'm not sure I see the point. > >> While we *could* maintain such a list manually inside of Sun, it is not >> a good >> long term mechanism. It doesn't scale (someone would have to manually >> track >> changes...), it isn't transparent (how does one find out who is on the >> ARC?), >> and it gives the impression that the ARC is still a private Sun-Thing. > > > A list on the community web pages would serve that purpose ... but it > sounds like you might have more elaborate plans here.
It sounds like there is still some debate as to how this should be implemented. Let me know when we reach consensus and I will create/modify the appropriate lists. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division
