I nominate Colin, Riny and Max. I hope that the Core Contributers can be selected very soon, for I have a urgent project to be sponsored under the new opensolaris process. Thanks.
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:15, Colin Zou wrote: > Second. > > Hi, all driver-discuss community leaders and members, > > Please continue this topic. According to opensolaris Constitution, > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/, a community > need core contributors. We had a lot of technical discussion and a lot > of projects in this community by now, it is also good for us conform to > opensolaris Constitution in order to improve the process. Without core > contributors, it is difficult for this community to sponsor any new > projects. > > Garrett, Roamer and Lucy set off a good start of this thread, let's > finish this topic by July 18. I would like to know your comments. > > Thanks, > Colin > > Yunsong (Roamer) Lu wrote: > > Second! And thank you very much for driving this! > > > > Can I start to nominate people as initial contributors? Looking at > > other communities, I would like to simply nominate listed leaders of > > device driver community: > > > > > Riny Qian Work on virtual console project > > > Colin Zou Lead USB discuss > > > Garrett D'Amore Driver community leader > > > Max Bruning Driver community leader > > > Masayuki Murayama Contributed many NIC drivers > > > Lu, Yunsong (Roamer) Contributed to LongRiver project > > > Rui Wang (Vincent) Contributed to LongRiver project and Cardbus > > > Javen Wu Contributed to LongRiver project and IBM ServeRaid > > drivers > > plus: > > > Paul Durrant > > > Dan Mick > > > > Thanks, > > > > Roamer > > > > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> The driver-discuss community is currently at risk because it has not > >> identified any Core Contributors. From the OGB perspective, this > >> makes the group look like it is inactive, and it also means that the > >> group has no voting representation. > >> > >> We need to correct this by identifying at minimum 3 Core > >> Contributors. We can also identify additional Contributors and Core > >> Contributors. > >> > >> Core Contributors are distinct in that they have voting privileges, > >> and they really should represent the interests of the group. I think > >> it is very important that Core Contributors be "in tune" with the > >> community, by participating on driver-discuss. Just committing code > >> into Nevada (or any other consolidation) should probably not entitle > >> you to Core Contributor status, by itself. Of course, it would be > >> nice if they also have some contributions for which they are well > >> known in the community. > >> > >> We are also supposed to have some process by which Core Contributors > >> and Contributors are granted. > >> > >> I'm going to propose the following simple process, for now: > >> > >> Identify as "Participants" the union of people who are identified as > >> either Core Contributors for the Device Drivers Community, or as > >> Community Leaders for the Device. > >> > >> Any person who agrees and is nominated by a Participant and seconded > >> by at least two other Participants, with no objecting Participants > >> shall be considered a Core Contributor. Any person who agrees and > >> is nominated by a Participant and seconded by another shall be > >> considered a Contributor. Self nomination or seconding is allowed. > >> > >> If there are objectors, then a full majority of Core Contributors > >> (and not less than 2) can overrule the objector(s). > >> > >> > >> Of course, we have to have a process to approve this rule, so I'm > >> going to ask for a simple majority of *responding* Participants (the > >> Leaders, identified momentarily) to approve the above policy. (This > >> means that if you don't participate, your lack of participation can't > >> hold up the vote!) The main thing is to get this thing bootstrapped > >> for now. Once we have Core Contributors identified, we can change it > >> again later. > >> > >> So, to those who are on the leaders list (because we have no Core > >> Contributors as yet), do you approve the process? (Yes? No? Abstain?) > >> Please respond to [email protected], so everyone knows > >> who voted and who did not. (I'm not sending this to people not on > >> driver-discuss, because, by my reckoning, such people aren't active > >> in the community and therefore probably shouldn't have their votes > >> considered.) > >> > >> The list of Community Leaders is: > >> > >> Riny Qian > >> Colin Zou > >> James C. Liu > >> Kevin X. Song > >> Garrett D'Amore > >> Max Bruning > >> Lu Yun-Song (Roamer) > >> Masayuki Murayama > >> Rui Wang (Vincent) > >> Alta Elstad > >> Javen Wu > >> Oliver Yang > >> Alan DuBoff > >> > >> Thanks1 > >> > >> -- Garrett D'Amore > >> _______________________________________________ > >> driver-discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > > driver-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss -- Best Regards, GaoPeng Chen Call: +86-10-62673005 Ext: x82005 Sun Microsystem Inc. 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