James Carlson wrote: > Joseph Kowalski writes: > >>> <http://poll.opensolaris.org/#tab2> >>> >>> I don't know how that is being managed. >>> >> This is just an automated "voting machine". It seems to have nothing to >> do with how "citizenship" is determined or checked. >> > > I believe you're actually mistaken about that. The "automated voting" > machine you're looking at relies on the live membership database. > (It still has nothing how "citizenship" is determined. Article 7.8 seems to cover that. Its nice to know that has enough smarts to check a membership database for citizens.) > It seems a little weird, but the best way to tell who the "core > contributors" (voters) are in a community is to go to that > poll.opensolaris.org site and search. > > It'd be cooler if there were some automatic "click here to see > contributors and core contributors" link on each community web page. > It'd be cooler still if the group facilitator or core contributors > could update that list themselves. I think there are missing tool > features here, but no missing data. > It seems that each community page seems to have such a link. >> Actually, section 7.8 of the Constitution has the "rules" for core >> contributor status (as I asked about). It seems that nobody has just >> bothered to bother to list the annointed ones for each community. >> Within a community, this is what I expected. This seems to be nothing >> more than a failure to act. >> > > I don't agree. > > Plus, I think having each group separately inventing its own way to > denote the various kinds of members would lead to chaos. It's > centralized now, and we should build on that instead. > This is (my BTW #2) seems to have been much ado about nothing. My apologies.
As before, my BTW #1 seems to still be rather interesting. - jek3
