On Wed, 21 May 2008, Ghee Teo wrote: > Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: >> >> We have to decide, as a community, if we want to take everything from >> anyone - or only contributions from people willing to do the work >> required to maintain a high quality release. >> > If we want to be a open source community, we have to provide ways to allow > all types of contributions. If Sun claimed to lower the barrier of entries > with OpenSolaris > 2008.05, the same Open source of participation should be encouraged. If we > are just > being selective, we can never grow the community, period. Many contributors > were > brewed from doing simple tasks, and learn from there. The real question now > is we don't > have the resources to do all the processes works internally to sponsor this. > Some questions > we should ask are: > - Can our internal process be simplified for simple tasks?
We like to say we "shrink to fit", but I'm not sure that ON can allow less process for even simple things and still maintain quality. While many of our contributors could be trusted to self review their one line changes - if our tools didn't automatically check for RTIs, less experienced people may put back things that break the gate or cause other bugs. > - Can contributors simply attached a patch to an external database, and let > the internal > sponsor to piggy back the fix in the next available RTI etc? (we do have > defects.opensolaris.org > which is ideal for this thing :) please keep in mind that defects.opensolaris.org is not currently for tracking bugs in the "live" product - but rather for projects currently under development. But, that being said, some sort of triage that would take these fixes & get them integrated would be cool. I just don't know if we have resources to assign to this. > - Black box thinking: What are the things we need to do to remove the need of > moderator? > For as long as we need a moderator, the process just would scale. I'm not sure what you mean here? we have a moderator for the sponsor process, but that's mostly to keep us in line internally :) Once we move the gate outside the firewall, we won't need the sponsor process or the moderator. Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025. 650-786-0461
