Hello, Facilitators. The short summary of the note below is this: if you could help us complete the Community Group <--> Project mappings on the site that would be great. We need to do this before the site transition. Just click on the "Endorse Projects" link in the "Community Editor" box of your Community Group space to select the projects your CG sponsors.
Thanks so much, Jim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ogb-discuss] Community Group <--> Project Mappings Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:46:23 +0900 From: Jim Grisanzio <jim.grisan...@sun.com> To: OpenSolaris Governing Board Discussions <ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org> Hello, OGB. As we prepare for Phase 1 of the website transition, we need to complete the Community Group <--> Project mappings in the database, and I'd like your help completing this process. Currently, creation of a Project is approved by a Community Group. And once created, a Project can be endorsed by many Community Groups. This many-to-many system has caused confusion in the past around reporting and communication, and as a practical matter we have ended up with a large number of Projects with no Community Group endorsements and/or overlapping endorsements on the site. Because we have to implement the current Constitution as well as other features for Projects and User Groups not mentioned in the current Constitution, we need to clarify the group relationships as part of the site transition. So, there will be one "Sponsoring" Community Group per Project, but there can be many Community Groups "Associated" with a Project. This implementation will make reporting tasks easier for the OGB, and it will clarify the many group relationships in the community so the infrastructure team can more efficiently manage the underlying systems as we grow. Right now there are more than 80 Projects with multiple Community Group endorsements. We plan to designate as "Sponsor" the first Community Group that endorsed the Project. Other Community Groups that have endorsed the same Project will be designated as "Associated" with the Project. Additionally, there are more than 80 Projects with no Community Group endorsement noted in the database. Part of the problem, we believe, stems from Community Group leaders simply not checking the box on the site making the endorsement link. For a while the site listed these endorsements right on the front page of the project in a long list that could not be closed up. That was a genuine source of frustration for people, so we think that leaders simply stopped checking the boxes, which is certainly understandable. Bill fixed that bug in the site last year, but people probably got in the habit of not checking the box. So, I am getting a list of the current mappings now. Would you please assist us in filling in the missing endorsement data? If so, who can I work with on this? I'm happy to follow up off list. I just figured that since the OGB is meeting at CommunityOne and getting reports from the community, the board is probably in the good position to have the latest information about these missing relationships. Thanks, Jim -- opensolaris.org transition: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/web/ _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/facilitation-discuss/attachments/20090529/794275ef/attachment.html>
