> I went through the xwin-discuss mailman archives (not > Jive) from May > 2006 to November 2006
2007 "Last" August, err this, not next ... But it doesn't matter, as the whole system is a source of in-equality in case of so many people (who unfortunately never ever complain). [...] > Why? > I only have one core contributor grant, and no > contributor grants. You should have more than one, and I shouldn't have an OGB-grant. Etc etc etc. > 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. I only want it, if Moinak gets it, too. "The xwin community" is reading ogb-discuss ... > > 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. Thank you :-) > > cheers, > steve My proposal would be: Remove that grants system. It seems to be too much overhead to maintain it in a proper way. Too many people are being left out. Especially due to the "project" vs. "community" controversy. To name a single example (because that's what I know best) : Juergen Keil and Ben Taylor do a very good job at maintaining QEMU, and in representing OpenSolaris to the qemu.com -devel list. cheers martin -- This message was posted from opensolaris.org
