I see you've cc'ed ogb-discuss - I assume that means you think this is
an OGB matter somehow, but I'm not sure there's anything for the OGB to do.
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> - The ARC commitee needs to be changed or OpenSolaris will die!
> If there is not a single non-Sun person from the OpenSolaris
> community that is allowed to at least veto decisions, the ARC
> decicions do not have the basis that is needed for OpenSolaris.
No one person has the power to veto decisions - all ARC members get a
single vote, and all ARC members can be outvoted by the rest. While
it is well agreed that OpenSolaris community members should join the
ARC, only one non-Sun person has ever volunteered to do so (and he
then went and got a contract at Sun, spoiling the example).
The biggest reason you do not have a vote at ARC is that you have not
tried to join the ARC. If the OpenSolaris ARC unfairly denies
membership to non-Sun people who apply, then the OGB should get
involved - but if no one is interested, all we can do is encourage
the ARC to try recruiting harder for non-Sun members. (Which would
be a good thing, but John Plocher is out of the office right now, so
we can't poke him about it until he gets back.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
