I submitted a proposal almost a week ago, asking that the
OpenSolaris ARC community Core Contributers weigh in on whether
to form a project to define the relationship between the ARC
community and the rest of OpenSolaris.org.
In the week since, there have been only TWO public responses
(thanks Alan and Danek). Privately, I have gotten one slightly
negative and one slightly positive email.
I could take this deafening lack of Community response to mean
that the Community does not wish to sponsor this effort or that
the community's governance is dysfunctional, but I'm not. I'm
going to take my own advice - "if the rules disagree with doing
the right thing, do the right thing and fix the rules!"
So, unless an ARC Community core contributer says "-1" by the
end of the day tomorrow, I will create the project and run with
it. I will also be drafting a constitutional amendment along the
lines of
Proposed OS.o Constitutional Amendment
Change 8.4 to say that any OpenSolaris Community
member can ask for the creation of a new project;
approval of the request is by 'Assumed Approval'
and causes the initiator to be granted Contributer
status in that Community Group. Of course, the OGB's
project creation guidelines will need to be changed
to match.
-John (trying really hard not to get discouraged...)
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Subject: [arc-discuss] ARC CG Project Proposal: Define the relationship between
ARC and OS.o...
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:16:42 -0800
From: John Plocher <john.ploc...@sun.com>
To: Open Solaris ARC Community <arc-discuss at opensolaris.org>
Roy and others have raised the issue that there is no formal relationship
between the ARC community and [... OpenSolaris...]
I'd like to form an ARC Community Project ... to develop a formal proposal...
[...T]he ARC Community needs to first have a "consensus vote" on sponsoring
such an effort...
... etc ...
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