Ashu, I'm glad you asked! First, let me separate the concepts of contributing to the community and being recognized for that contribution with the designation of "contributor" or "core contributor".
Taking the second point first, anyone in the community (not just current contributors) can propose that someone be added (or removed) as an official contributor or core contributor. And it's certainly not a requirement that someone must work for Sun to be a contributor or core contributor! I will be happy to nominate anyone to contributor status if he or she has contributed to the community, regardless of whether or not he or she works for Sun. Now taking the first point, about external community members getting involved as contributors. There are a number of ways to do this, which are outlined on the contribution page: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ha-clusters/ohac/contribute/ . I would certainly welcome external-to-Sun folks to jump in with any of these activities, or to talk to me offline if you're unsure where to begin. Thanks, Nick Ashutosh Tripathi wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Agree to all the nominations. One question on the procedure, > who proposes the list of contributors? > > I ask because i note that most (All?) the nominations are for > SUN internal people and was wondering if there is a > way for the external community members to get involved > more closely as a contributer. > > Thanks, > -ashu > > >>> Nicholas Solter wrote: >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I have several proposals in the area of contributors and core >>>> contributors. Current core contributors, please vote on these proposals, >>>> either individually, or with a global +1 or -1 if you agree or disagree >>>> with all of them :-) This proposal will timeout in one week (October 25). >>>> >>>> First, I am proposing general guidelines for qualifications to be a >>>> contributor or a core contributor. >>>> >>>> A contributor is someone who has contributed something (code, QA, pubs, >>>> G11N, project reviews, code reviews, code cleanup, code cleanup reviews, >>>> evangelism, etc.) to the HA Clusters community group effort. >>>> >>>> A core contributor is someone who fits the criteria of contributor and >>>> who is also active and visible in the community answering questions on >>>> the alias, leading or contributing to a project, fixing or code >>>> reviewing bugs, etc. >>>> >>>> I also propose that everyone starts as a contributor, and then is >>>> elected as a core contributor after proving his or her ongoing >>>> involvement. With a few exceptions listed below, current core >>>> contributors are grandfathered in as core contributors. >>>> >>>> I'm proposing to add the following people as contributors to the HA >>>> Clusters community: >>>> >>>> Lisa Shepherd (lisashep) >>>> Lisa has been instrumental in writing documentation for Open HA >>>> Cluster. She's currently hard at work preparing the data services man >>>> pages for opensourcing. She has also been quite active on not only the >>>> ha-cluster-discuss alias, but in answering questions on other aliases >>>> such as documentation and zones. >>>> >>>> Madhan Kumar Balasubramanian (madhankb) >>>> Venkat Chennuru (vchennu) >>>> Maria Nieto (mnieto) >>>> Venugopal NS (venu_ns) >>>> Madhan Kumar, Venkat, Maria, and Venu have contributed substantial >>>> QA expertise to testing the opensource code and Solaris Cluster Express. >>>> >>>> Lingling Chyu (lingling) >>>> Lingling put in substantial behind the scenes work to prepare the >>>> DATS test suite for opensourcing. She is currently working hard on >>>> preparing more test suites for opensourcing. >>>> >>>> Bharathi Subramanian (ishekar) >>>> Bharathi has contributed engineering resources to the Solaris >>>> Cluster Express installer. >>>> >>>> Venkateswarlu Tella (venku) >>>> Venku is responsible for the ongoing effort to ensure that Open HA >>>> Cluster runs on OpenSolaris. >>>> >>>> Finally, I propose the following changes to the current list of core >>>> contributors >>>> (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ha-clusters/Contributors/): >>>> >>>> Thelan Nguyen (thelan) is moved to contributor status >>>> Kazuhiko Maekawa (mkaz) is moved to contributor status >>>> Thelan and Kazuhiko contribute substantially to the ongoing effort >>>> to opensource Solaris Cluster test suites and G11N, but the move to >>>> contributor will keep their status in line with the above guidelines, >>>> and in line with other QE and QA engineers. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Nick >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ha-clusters-discuss mailing list >>> ha-clusters-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ha-clusters-discuss > _______________________________________________ > ha-clusters-discuss mailing list > ha-clusters-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ha-clusters-discuss -- Nicholas Solter, Solaris Cluster Development http://blogs.sun.com/nsolter
