On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:16 PM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> Which is exactly why I want the constitutional responsibilities taken >> away. > > Where does this lead? If nothing has constitutional responsibilities, then > why have a constitution or a governing board?
It's not that nothing has constitutional responsibilities; it's that the constitutional responsibilities are separated from the day-to-day operations of getting stuff done. You have a constitution and an OGB to take the constitutional stuff away and handle it separately so that collectives don't get beaten senseless by the constitution every time they sneeze. > Where/What is there the role > for the OpenSolaris Community itself, or are we simply to be a > sourceforge-like > set of independent and unconnected Projects? > > Everyone seems keen on dissolving anything having to do with an umbrella > community in favor of balkanization and silos... Make everything a Project, > there should be no hierarchy, control is bad, the way we have built Solaris > for the last 18 years is hard to understand and should be abandoned, .... Not at all. I don't want everything to be a project. I want everything to be what it is naturally. I want hierarchies (an there are more than one) to be the ones that really exist rather than being enforced from the top down. And control is good - but it has to be part of a constructive framework that lets people know where they stand (most people crave order over chaos). And, you know, we are entering a new world where things are different. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
