The proposal below looks good to me, especially since it also answers Roy's very reasonable issues with the proposed OGB Committee. I suggest the Content project also be endorsed by Advocacy since there is a clear functional relationship.
S. On Nov 27, 2007, at 21:34, Alan Burlison wrote: > At present the opensolaris.org Website Project is a subproject of the > Tools Community, and it has become clear that it is a poor fit. The > introductory paragraph on the Tools project [1] page says: > > ---------- > "The Tools community welcomes individuals interested in the > implementation of infrastructure used to build and manage OpenSolaris. > This infrastructure includes compilers, source managers and browsers, > and OpenSolaris-specific development, build, and install tools > (like wx, > cw, and bfu)." > ---------- > > In contrast, the introductory paragraph on the Website Project page > [2] > says: > > ---------- > The website project covers both the development and operations of the > opensolaris.org infrastructure. > ---------- > > Quite clearly these two activities have virtually no connection with > each other. I would therefore like to propose that the Website > Project > be promoted to a Community. This proposal also subsumes the "Website > Editorial Committee" [3] which was proposed by John Plocher at the OGB > meeting on 14th November 2007. > > My proposal would have several benefits: > > * Help make the website work become more visible, and hopefully > attract > more contributors. > > * Provide a single point of call for all issues related to > opensolaris.org. > > * Provide a natural home for all current and future website-related > work such as the new authentication and authorisation system, the > online voting system, selection of a CMS/Wiki, site look & feel and > so forth. > > I feel that the current "Website Editorial Committee" proposal is a > poor > solution to the requirement for oversight of the content of the site > home page. The proposed Committee is a radical departure from the > Community/Project structures used by the OpenSolaris community, and > seems to provide little benefit over the existing mechanisms that we > have in place. > > The details of my proposal are as follows: > > 1. Promote the Website Project to be a Community. > > 2. Ask the OpenGrok Project (currently under Tools) if they wish to > remain under Tools or move to the new Website Community. > > 3. The Project leaders of the Website Project become the initial > set of > Community leaders of the Website Community, namely: > * jimgris (Jim Grisanzio) > * alanbur (Alan Burlison) > * patrickf (Patrick Finch) > * barb1 (Barbara Lundquist) > * sch (Stephen Hahn) > * stevel (Stephen Lau) > * sarad (Sara Dornsife) > > 4. The following initial set of Projects to be set up by the Website > Community: > > * Content > Replacement for the proposed "Website Editorial Committee". > Manages shared site content, i.e. anything that is not owned > by a > particular Community or Project. Also responsible for site L&F, > layout and markup standards. > > * Infrastructure > Development of the site infrastructure, as outlined in the > "Restructuring the opensolaris.org infrastructure" document [4]. > Will generate projects as necessary to implement particular > features, e.g. the Auth project (see below). > > * Operations > Issues related to the running of the site. Initial membership > to be > the same as the current tonic-ops group. > > * Auth > Project to provide a new distributed user management, > authentication and authorisation mechanism. > > 5. The existing website-discuss mailing list to remain as a > Community-level forum. The existing website-content mailing list > will be used by the Content project, with mailing lists for other > Projects being set up as and when required. > > ---------- > > [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/ > [2] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/website/ > [3] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-November/ > 003449.html > [4] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/website/website_restructuring/ > > -- > Alan Burlison > -- > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
