Simon Phipps wrote: > I've posted to my blog what I was thinking. Comments and corrections > most welcome. > http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/simplifying_opensolaris_governance >
What I like about this is that it offers the ability for people to /group themselves/ so that structure doesn't get in the way of function, and then over time we can see what /actually works/ rather than attempting to specify all possibilities up front. We are fortunate that Alan has built enough flexibility into the authentication application for future evolution. So, the OGB should just concern itself with defining the collectives (Projects, Communities, SIGs, UGs, etc) and also the main governance-oriented roles (Contributor, Core Contributor, Facilitator, Member, etc) and leave the rest to the edge applications accessing the auth application. The real intelligence here is at the edge where apps will give people access to resources to get work done. Just making these changes that Simon suggest (which we all discussed in two OGB meetings) is a big enough deal. We should start small and move a bit and adjust in small steps along the way. Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
