Core Contributors to Device Drivers Community: It has come to my attention that that some projects are getting "endorsed" by the community without discussion here. A recent example is the device mapper project.
I believe it is inappropriate for this community (or any other, for that matter) to be endorsing projects without at least giving *some* opportunity for public discussion in this group. Because of the past history, I would like to re-review the list of projects that this community has endorsed so far, and request that the CC's here re-review the list and vote on them once again. The current set of projects that have this group's endorsement are: Bluetooth Stack & Drivers <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/bluetooth/> Brussels - unified NIC configuration <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/brussels/> Caiman, Solaris Install Revisited <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/> Clearview: Network Interface Coherence <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/> Crossbow: Network Virtualization and Resource Control <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/> Device Detection Tool <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ddtool/> Device Mapper <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/devmapper/> Emancipation <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/emancipation/> Emulex Fibre Channel Device Driver <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/emulex/> Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platform <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/intel-platform/> Enhance the support of USB webcams <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/webcams/> Fingerprint Authentication <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fingerprint-authentication/> IP over Infiniband <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ipoib/> IPsec Tunnel Reform <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tref/> Network Auto-Magic <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/> ON/Nevada (ONNV) Project <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/onnv/> Open Sound System <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opensound/> Programming Contest <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/contest/> RDMA Offload Framework <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/rof/> SDcard Drivers <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/sdcard-drivers/> Session Initiation Protocol <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/network-sip/> Solaris PowerPC Port <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ppc-dev/> Solaris iSCSI Target <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/iscsitgt/> Suspend/Resume <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/suspend-resume/> Virtual Console <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/vconsole/> Of these projects, I'm going to vote +1 to approve all of them, except that to the following projects which I give a -1, because frankly, they should not be "endorsed" projects by this group (because they have little or no overlap with device drivers, not because the projects are not worthwhile): Caiman, Solaris Install Revisited: -1 IPsec Tunnel Reform: -1 Session Initiantion Protocol: -1 ON/Nevada Project: -1 Programming Contest: -1 (note that this time frame has expired) Emancipation: -1 (the project's main focus is libc_i18n and sparc dis -- neither of which are related to drivers) Network Auto-Magic: -1 (although I could be swayed by the argument that NIC drivers need to be modified to support link notification, but it seems a tenuous connection) Please, before granting any new endorsements to projects (esp. project leaders --- you know who you are), at least take the minimal effort to get 3 or more +1's and no -1's. (I'm not sure what the recourse is when a project is given a -1...) Thanks! -- Garrett _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
