Jim Grisanzio wrote: > > I agree with you. But we really should not feel deadlocked in our > decisions. The voting membership of the OpenSolaris Community -- the > Core Contributors -- is small and well defined. We may feel deadlocked > at times, but that's only because we have not asserted our leadership as > Core Contributors.
Just to clarify this a bit: Since the election, we've had a contributors at opensolaris.org list, which currently has about 345 Contributors /and/ Core Contributors on it. The list was only used a few times, and the current subscriber data is old. Most people are not even aware that we have the list. I suggest we delete that list and open a Core Contributor list for only Core Contributor conversations. The list should be open to view, but only Core Contributors can post. New people can be added as they become Core Contributors. There are currently about 350 Core Contributors on OpenSolaris, so that's the voting Membership at present. Some people have (justifiably) said that we are getting bogged down in gyrating threads with a lot of noise and no decisions or clear action. Well, it seems to me that the only people who can make decisions on anything are the Members, so why not take some of these conversations on to a list that can make some decisions? This brings up an interesting question of the value of the OGB list as well. I think initially the OGB list was intended for governance conversations, but it seems to have become a general list at this point. Even if we don't like the idea of having the Members assert themselves and lead (people seem to want the OGB to do that), we still have the issue of the Membership having no clear way to communicate with itself other than to use general lists (but then people complain about the signal to noise ratio and don't participate). And if people don't like the idea of having a Core Contributor list at all, then I think we should still delete contributors at opensolaris.org since it's not used and violates our website policy for insufficient traffic: http://opensolaris.org/os/site_guidelines/ Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
