+1 On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I've updated the device-drivers leaders page at > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/device_drivers/leaders/ > > So that it now shows the contributor grants that have been recorded. > Many thanks to Stephen Lau for creating the code to facilitate this. > > Now that I see that, there are some grants that I think are missing. > I'm proposing the following people for grants. Please let me know by > responding with a +1 or -1. (I need 2 more +1's and no -1's to approve > these folks.) In particular, I want to get this resolved before elections. > > * Jurgen Keil: Core Contributor > > - Jurgen has been active with suspend/resume, and has offered a > number of hacks to improve that. He has also authored a few other > device drivers of his own. > > * Alan DuBoff: Contributor > > - Alan has been a facilitator for others getting their code in. > Notably, he sponsored the putback of sfe, is working on some other NIC > drivers, and has also worked with me on the QA testing required to > integrate afe and mxfe. > > * Masayuki Murayama: Core Contributor > > - Murayama's NIC drivers are fairly famous throughout the community. > > * Javen Wu: Contributor > > - Javen has been active with storage adapters. > > * David Gwynne: Contributor > > - David wrote the "mfi" driver that some folks are using. He's also > the author of quite a few OpenBSD drivers, some of which have probably > been used within OpenSolaris. > > * Alta Elstad: Contributor > > - Alta has played a significant role in enhancing the Writing Device > Drivers document. > > As far as the designation between CC and C grants, I've tried to limit > CC grants to people whom I think have contributed actual code that is > widely used by the community, and whom I think are likely to participate > in elections and represent the community well. I am not interested in > handing out CC grants to folks that I don't think will vote in elections. > > * James Liu: Contributor > > - James has been active at Sun in working with 3rd party OEMs to > "encourage" them to have their products supported in (Open)Solaris. > Just yesterday he called me up to follow up on where things were at > w.r.t. Intel and open sourcing iprb. > > * Randy Fishel: Core Contributor > > - Randy has been quite involved with suspend/resume as the S3 > suspend/resume project lead. But his background and experience extend > to lots of other device drivers in OpenSolaris. He's been readily > accessible to the community as well. > > I'm happy to hear other suggestions or suggestions why people I've > offered up for Contributor grants should get Core Contributor grants > instead. (For some of the C grant suggestions, I was sort of on the > fence about whether CC grant might be more appropriate. I figured > better to err on the side of caution -- I'd far rather be asked to > promote someone later to CC than to make a mistake and wind up wanting > to demote a CC to a C.) > > -- Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > 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
