Alan Burlison wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
>> Alan Burlison wrote:
>>> Owing to the confusion around the Website GG/Project issue, it wasn't
>>> clear to me exactly what was going to happen to the Auth repository -
>>> I did ask for guidance from the OGB [3] but as yet I haven't received
>>> a definitive reply.
>> The OGB already voted to create the Website Community Group. Several OGB
>> members told you the Community Group existed and should be used.
>
> As you know, the proposal submitted to the OGB was heavily modified by
> the OGB without allowing either me or the other members of the affected
> project to supply feedback. That still hasn't been rectified.
Heavily modified? We simply took away the part where you took the final
review power from the OGB website committee - everything else was really
cosmetic in the end. As noted in the earlier mail to Simon, the OGB
doesn't approve your list of proposed projects, and the community always
has the power to add more, so deleting the content project, while it may
have been a mistake, had no real effect.
> Please go and reread the mail exchanges. The OGB should perhaps spend
> more time working for and with the OpenSolaris community and less time
> trying to impose things via edict.
The OGB all has full time jobs, none of which include doing OGB work.
While some of us are fortunate enough to have employers who allow us
to spend some time on OGB business, they haven't freed us from our
other responsibilities, so we have a limited amount of time to deal
with this stuff, and have to prioritize what we can do in that time.
Right now, dealing with petulant community members who want to take
their toys and go home because we didn't give them exactly what they
asked for is a bit lower on the priority list than our ongoing
discussions with Sun management over the OpenSolaris/Indiana situation
and just what the relationship between Sun and the community will be.
You have your community group, it has the right to create the projects
you proposed - all you don't have is the final authority to decide what
appears on opensolaris.org. Are you really going to fight us tooth and
nail over that?
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
