Brian Nitz wrote: > Also, how is it that you Stephen are a member of OGB but don't > yet have core contributor status?
Core Contributor status is per community. All the OGB members are Core Contributors, but not necessarily of the Desktop community. (We're automatically core contributors "At Large" by virtue of being on the OGB, and most of us were already core contributors to various communities. I'm not even a core contributor to the Desktop community, though I am a member of the Desktop C-Team - but I am a core contributor of the X community.) > I propose the very first step should be to add a brief description of > contributions to the grant for individuals with "contributor" or "core > contributor" status on the > http://opensolaris.org/viewProfile.jspa?username={} page. Sadly, you can pretty much forget about any changes that require updates to the website software unless you want to volunteer changes you've done yourself to the bits that have been released by the website team. > For example it appears that the > individual who advocated dissolution of a Solaris community isn't > associated with or leader of any projects or communities but does have a > core contributor grant. His contribution was participating in creating the community governance model. He was automatically granted status as a member of the original CAB/OGB, which he was in at the invitation of Sun management, as someone with experience in running other open source communities. (The original CAB was 2 members chosen from the pilot program community, 2 Sun employees, and one outsider chosen by Sun from another open source community.) > For what it's worth, I would recommend that Stephen Lau and most of the > desktop development and QA teams should be granted at least contributor > status. Their work within the Gnome community might not contribute > code directly into ON, For the Desktop community, contributing code to ON would probably be just about the last thing I'd consider to be appropriate criteria for selecting who the core contributors of the Desktop community are. Contributions to the OpenSolaris Desktop projects (JDS, KDE, SFE, XFCE, etc.) would be far higher on the list. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
