Steve, I do like your idea of requiring registration for voting. Also requiring people to re-register after not having voted for a x time period, would also cut down on non-response votes.
-Brian P.S. - How big of an issue is this? On 8/8/07, Stephen Lau <stevel at sun.com> wrote: > > As I've said - I'm fine with LDom's being a community. I had > reservations as to how much content they are actually going to have - > but those have been allayed by Ashley's assurances that they will have > content, lists, code, open discussion and open development. > > I still express my concern that communities are adding only more people > to our pool of people who will probably end up not voting though thus > increasing the likelihood of a future election/vote not being able to > drum up the 50% turnout required to make it count. > > cheers, > steve > > Octave Orgeron wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > Perhaps we're looking at this the wrong way? Zones, Xen, LDom's, etc > > are all virtualization technologies. No question about that. But, > > should they all be under a virtualization community? I question if it > > should be one community with a bunch of projects under it. Obviously, > > Zones, Xen, and LDom's are different from a technology standpoint. > > Perhaps, this can be simplified by having top level "topics" with > > communities under them? This would just be a top level organizational > > change and promote communities under topics. This could be applied to > > other communities, i.e. ZFS, UFS, SVM, QFS, NFS under "Storage and File > > Systems"? I'm just concerned that we're letting the hierarchy of the > > opensolaris.org website define what a community or a project is, when > > it should be the other way around. > > > > In anycase, I think having an LDom community makes a lot of sense. With > > source code and projects, it's a large enough area for development and > > documentation to warrant a community. > > > > Octave > > > > > > --- Stephen Lau <stevel at sun.com> wrote: > > > >> John Plocher wrote: > >>> Stephen Lau wrote: > >>>> With a key difference being that ON went and built its own website > >> and > >>>> infrastructure: opensolaris.org. ON wasn't joining anyone else's > >> community. > >>>> If LDoms wants to pursue that path, then more power to it. But > >> it's > >>>> seeking to join our community, and as such, should play nice by > >> how our > >>>> community feels. > >>> > >>> No disagreement here - just don't set up a us-vs-them system where > >>> "they" have to jump thru more hoops than we ourselves do... > >>> > >>> My "vote" is to let them do what they desire; it takes nothing > >>> away from ON or OS.o to have more stuff and more people in the > >>> community; after all, OS.o has always been intended to be much > >>> much more than simply a place to open source the ON consolidation. > >>> > >>> Even if we guess wrong and the LDOM folks can't make a go of things > >>> in the long term, we still don't lose. I don't see any downside to > >>> spinning up another CG for this effort - and I see a huge downside > >>> to throwing arbitrary obstacles in their path. > >>> > >>> <cynicism> > >>> On the other hand, if this all means we need to de-charter > >>> ON as a community group because it isn't meeting those same > >>> requirements... > >>> </cynicism> > >>> > >>> -John (Sometimes we seem to be our own worst enemy) Plocher > >> As I alluded to in one of my other emails - I think we do potentially > >> > >> lose. What happens if next year's election rolls around, and we fail > >> to > >> reach the 50% required turnout? What if we fail to reach it by the > >> 13 > >> votes that we just gave to the LDom folks? (Not to pick on them - > >> I'm > >> just using them as the convenient example we're currently debating) > >> > >> If Community Groups and voting privileges were disconnected more, > >> then > >> I'd be more open to this. > >> > >> cheers, > >> steve > >> > >> -- > >> stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net > >> opensolaris // solaris kernel development > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ogb-discuss mailing list > >> ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > >> > > > > > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > Octave J. Orgeron > > Solaris Systems Engineer > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/ > > http://unixconsole.blogspot.com > > unixconsole at yahoo.com > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you > all the tools to get online. > > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting > > > -- > stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net > opensolaris // solaris kernel development > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20070808/c15b1049/attachment.html>
