Ghee Teo wrote: > +1. Welcome Albert! > > While on the topic, I like to raise a discussion on the formation of > contributors > and core contributors for the desktop communities. Starting with some > questions: > - Community leaders - are they the same as core contributors? Initially yes, but now - not so much. Community leader (from the webpage term) just means having the ability to edit webpages. You can and should feel free to dole this out as you see fit, i.e. if a volunteer wants to update webpages, she or he can be made a "community leader" without a (core) contributor grant also being given. > - Where are the list of desktop contributors? > (I know there was a list put up for election of OGB) Should they not > be placed > on the community page? Creating a list of core contributors and > contributors > for each some communities may help new comers to ping these people for > involvement. http://poll.opensolaris.org > - While all of the desktop team in Sun are contributing to desktop > projects in one > way or another, very few are being acknowledged as contributors or > even core > contributors. One can argue that they got paid anyway and have access > to the svn > etc. But that is wrong approach I think. Without the acknowledgment, > some people > will do the minimum while others will definitely have no incentive of > doing more. Certainly they should have at least Contributor status. I would hope all Core Contributors are at least participating on the open mailing lists, and open projects. > - Also there is a growing awareness from the management within Sun to > identify > open source experience and contribution, formalizing the list of core > contributors and > contributors is the win-win thing to do now. > Agreed > Before we get into the details who/how one is acknowledged to be a > core/contributers, > do I get buy in from existing core/contributors to formalize this? :) I'm not a (core) contributor, but this sounds reasonable to me.
Glynn: Will you take care of giving Albert his contributor grant? cheers, steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
