Jim Grisanzio wrote: > John ... I pulled together Alan's and your comments into a fresh roles > proposal based on my original mail earlier this week. Can we consider > this to start so Alan and his team can move on the infrastructure work?
OK, but see comment below. > Constitutional Term Changes: > > * Group replaces Community Group to describe all collectives. > * Groups are Communities, Projects, and User Groups. This flattens things more than the board's consensus on 7/7. > * Core Contributor is removed. > > > Community: Social groups gathered around an issue or technology. > > * Participant: Someone who participates in the activities of the > Community. > * Contributor: A Participant who has been acknowledged by the > Community as having substantively contributed towards > accomplishing the goals of that Community. > * Leader: A Contributor elected by a Community to lead a Community. > * OGB Facilitator: A Contributor who acts as the interface between a > Community and the OGB. > > All roles except Participant have edit rights to web pages in > their Community. > > > Project: Development groups gathered around repositories and integration > tools. > > * Participant: Someone who participates in the activities of a Project. > * Committer: A Participant who has been acknowledged by the Project > as having substantively contributed towards accomplishing the > goals of that Project and who has commit rights to any code > repositories owned by the Project. Why Committer rather than Contributer? From a Governance perspective, whether or not someone should be a committer is an operational decision; whether or not they have contributed or not is governance. > * Leader: A Committer elected by a Project to lead a Project. > * OGB Facilitator: A Committer who acts as the interface between a > Project and the OGB. > > All roles except Participant have edit rights to web pages in > their Project. > > > User Group: Groups of users gathered around issues or technologies in a > specific geography. > > * Participant: Someone who participates in the activities of a User > Group. > * Coordinator: A participant who leads and coordinates the > activities of a User Group. Why not Contributer here as well? > * OGB Facilitator: A Coordinator who acts as the interface between a > Group and the OGB. > > All roles except Participant have edit rights to web pages in > their User Group. > > > Jim > > -- > http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
