On Jan 10, 2008, at 19:20, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> There's nothing to do here but not because the Advocacy Group is doing
> a great job with it (they might be, but it doesn't matter). Bottom
> line is that SMI has asked an Advocacy-sponsored mailing list for
> input into a private business decision. Had it asked the OpenSolaris
> Community for that input,
There *is* no place to "ask the OpenSolaris Community" as a whole; in fact,
the idea of doing so flies in the face of the constitution which goes to
great lengths to delegate responsibility to individual community groups.
According to the constitution in section 7.10: Meetings:
Each Community Group is considered "in meeting" from the moment
it is initiated by the OGB to the moment it is terminated. All
Community Group meetings shall take place using asynchronous
collaboration mechanisms, such as electronic mailing lists, that
are open to the public for read access, archived for later review,
and able to accept communication from all participants such that
it is reasonably believed to be delivered to all participants in
a timely manner.
If the OS.o email list "advocacy-discuss" isn't such a meeting place, I'm
at a loss as to what is.
You can't have it both ways - that the OGB is only there for conflict
resolution and that the OGB must be the first line of approval for
all new efforts.
-John
