Have we gotten any word on the status of this proposal ? IIRC we have enough +1's, no -1's and the timer's expired
On 10-May-08, at 10:32 PM, John Sonnenschein wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:51 PM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> > wrote: >> John Sonnenschein wrote: >>> >>> Yes, of course ( Sorry Joerg, I didn't mean to slight you ). John >>> Plocher as well ought to be added to the list. >> >> Thank you, but no - the core contributor grants should be >> restricted to those who actually contribute - those of us >> who simply pontificate should remain simply "interested" or >> maybe "contributors". > > Fair enough. I'm hoping that you'll be around and available enough for > help when it comes time to navigate our way through the ARC process > though, so I'm hoping if you won't accept a core grant, at least a > contributor grant. > >> I'll let you run with the charter as you see fit since you >> are closer to the problem than I am... > > Okay, so here's something I feel comfortable with > > > Emancipation Community Charter ( rev 1 ) > CG Problem statement > > The OpenSolaris operating system is not completely open > because several components that are required to build and > boot the OS are only available in the "closed bin" archives. > > Scope: > Initially, the focus will be on selected high-value efforts, > such as self-hosting an open ON, drivers, posix utils, but > the long range intent is to eliminate the need for (and use > of) closed source software on the opensolaris OE. > > Goals/milestones: > > Quarterly progress reports will be produced and sent to the > OS-announce alias to keep the larger community informed of > our progress. > > In order of priority: > > Goal 0: Replace the components needed to build and boot > the ON consolidation with whatever shims, hacks > and scaffolding is needed to produce a proof of > concept that self-hosts and boots, followed by a > reimplementation of the userland utilities as per same. > > Goal 1: Determine the best way to replace the above hacks > with a permanent solution, including decision > making architectural and design guidelines that > can be used in similar situations elsewhere in > the emancipation effort (i.e., should we reuse > from some particular other open OS, roll our own, > do without; what makes a good -vs- poor choice, > how do we choose without causing unnecessary > strife, ...? Collaboration with the ARC community > is implied during this stage. > > Goal 2: Develop and push the changes prototyped in phase > 0 and formalized in phase 1 into the ON (and other) > consolidation(s) and remove the associated closed > bin pieces. > > Goal 3: Seek replacement for high-use closed source software > such as media players, rich web players, etc. > > Goal 4: After completion of goals 0 - 3, disband the community > > To facilitate this community, the initial list of core contributors ( > should they accept ) shall be: > > Faciltator: > John Sonnenschein ( error404 ) > Core Contributors: > Jason King ( jbk ) > Steve Stallion ( stallion ) > Roland Mainz ( gisburn ) > Joerg Schilling ( joerg ) > John Sonnenschein ( error404 ) ( note: i'm not sure if this is > implied by "facilitator" ) > Garret D'Amore ( gdamore ) > Contributors: > John Plocher ( plocher ) > > > If I've forgotten anyone for the list of contributors, please pipe up. > I mean no disrespect by your omission, chalk it up to an inability for > my brain to self-organize on certain things. > > -- > PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 > Available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20080530/4d0ebeb0/attachment.html>
