Martin Bochnig wrote: >> Martin Bochnig wrote: >> >>> The funniest thing: I'm still only a plain >>> >> contributor in the xwin-community, so is Moinak >> Ghosh!!! >> >>> >>> >> Have you emailed the X Window System Community and >> asked for core >> contributor status? I'm sure you are more than >> qualified. >> >> cheers, >> steve >> -- >> stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | >> www.whacked.net >> > > Hi! > > We had done this. We (Moinak and I) had been told it would "depend on our > future behaviour, and then they would decide". Message must be in the xwin > archives somewhere, back last July or August. > I went through the xwin-discuss mailman archives (not Jive) from May 2006 to November 2006 and don't see anything. It's possible I missed it, could you point me at it if you have a link to the thread at all?
Now that it's the future (one year seems reasonable), perhaps you could ping the xwin-discuss list again and inquire. > Look: Moinak is just too humble. He would never write critical mails. That's > why I do it now. It is a joke that he only has a single "core" thingy. > Why? I only have one core contributor grant, and no contributor grants. I don't find that to be a joke. I haven't asked for contributor status anywhere else, and don't feel I deserve it anywhere else (except possibly the OGB community). But even if I did ask, I don't see that as being a "critical mail." > I would rather like to give up my OGB-core title. > If I deserve one, then for SPARC-Xorg, hence xwin-community (actually for > FOX, but that's still not possible, as FOX is a project, rather than a > community, err, what?). > Yup, I totally agree. Which is why I think you should follow up with the X Windows community and see if they will give you the grant now. > But Moinak deserves more than one. > Certainly - but in this large a community, people have to be proactive about asking for what they deserve rather than waiting for it to be doled out. I fully agree that this penalises people who are perhaps too shy or humble to ask - but that's the reality of the current system. A tangential topic might be to investigate a better system for this; I imagine this system impacts contributors/core contributors from cultures where asking might be perceived as being too forward (e.g. many Asian cultures) - but that's a different topic. I think a mail bringing up the topic of contributor grants for yourself and Moinak to the attention of the X Windows community would be valuable, and I can't see why it would be denied given all the work you cited above. > p.s. I may not be online this week, as I'm abroad (trying to make some money). > Good luck, I hope your search goes well. cheers, steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
