> My immediate thoughts were on advertising in groups such as
> dtrace-discuss, zfs-discuss, networking-discuss, etc - the relevant
> communities for those doing the engineering work. In cases where
> there are projects that have their own list, such as crossbow and
> others, it may also be worthwhile an additional email there, too.
I agree to the point have having greater os.o participation
in open ARC cases whether PSARC/LSARC/WSARC/FWARC or any other
active ARC, review board (RB), working group (WG). I'm not
sure that sending mail to every os.o community member is the
way to do it. Supposedly the os.o arc community is the group
of members interested in general. I agree for cases the come
from a specific community, such as you mentioned, and I'd
add smf-discuss and security-discuss, they should be on the
case interest list and receive schedual announcements for
their interest. I'm not sure how the SAC structure can
automate this. I would have expected to see the agenda of
upcoming open cases on the web site as a mirror of the internal
site. I don't see them. In face the only thing I see is from
24 Jan, 2007 announcing the agenda for that meeting.
> My feeling, at the present, is that we're inadvertently leaving the
> greater community out of a significant event in a project's life
> cycle and that we should try to be more inclusive.
I might phrase it differently. We're making it opaque
to the greater community to know to engage. Unless the
community is on the interest list (and all case owners
might consider adding the communities) they are unlikely
to see any mail. Perhaps meeting nags, like have your materials
in 7 days before should go to the interest list as well as the
project team and owner.
Gary..
