Hi Eric, Sorry about the delay, I'm in the middle of travels. You are definitely an important contributor of the desktop community, in particular your blogging and spreading the word about the build tools used in this community. I think there's a bit of an issue, though, with granting [core] contributor status based on spec-files-extra contributions. SFE is not an opensolaris project at all, although it's clear that it's closely related to the desktop community. There's also pkgbase, but it has not really taken off (yet ;) and it's not even endorsed by the desktop community. (I'd like to see that happen, btw).
Talking about spec file contributions in general, I personally don't think it makes sense to pick any number for a limit to become a core contributor. For example, Sun employees who are part of the desktop group have lots of spec files, but I wouldn't give them core contributor status if they don't participate in any community discussions. Maybe not even contributor status. Actually, I don't think we need any rules for this, it's a case by case thing. BTW, you missed 2 core contributors: Erwann Chenede and Doug Scott were elected just after the OGB elections. I guess it should have been announced on this list, sorry about that. Anyway, that's my opinion, what do other core contributors think? Laca On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 12:38 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > I'd like to request core contributor status[1] in the Desktop community > group for my contributions[2] to the spec-files-extra project (aka > pkgbase). Additionally, in the interest of establishing a general > policy in this regard, I'd like to propose that core contributor status > in the Desktop community group be granted to members who make/made at > least one contribution (change or create, plus commit) to some minimum > number of different spec files. > > Thoughts in general? > > In specific, how about setting the number at 25? Too high? Too low? > Just right? > > If it were 25, it would have the following effect[3]: The OpenSolaris > grant status of five people would be elevated. Two would be changed > from contributor (in the Desktop CG) to core contributor, and three > (who currently have no grant status) would become core contributors. > > --Eric > > > [1] Currently the following people have core contributor status > in the Desktop community group: davelam - Dave Lin; dcarbery > - Damien Carbery; dermot - Dermot McCluskey; dkenny - Darren > Kenny; gman - Glynn Foster; laca - Laca Peter; padraig - > Padraig O'Briain; yippi - Brian Cameron > > [2] In specific, I've made change/create + commit contributions > once or more to ~105 different spec files. > > [3] Based on an "unaudited" analysis of change log notes I > just did. > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
