* Eric Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-29 15:12]: > Rainer Orth wrote: > >>* Therefore, an alternative model would be to use the storage community > >>(given that block and object based storage are getting closer recently, > >>cf. the object storage devices work for SCSI) as an umbrella for both > >>block-based storage (e.g. iscsi, svm projets, maybe others?) and > >>filesystems (with the projects mentioned above). > > > >i.e. create a generic Filesystems community and grandfather the existing > >FS-related communities as projects, maybe adding more related projects at > >the same time. > > While I agree, there is the not-so-small problem that there currently is > no mechanism in the charter to "grandfather" communities into other > communities demoting them to projects in the process. Moreover, the > communities being absorbed would have to agree to this occurring... and > defining exactly what "agree" means for an entire community is a bit of a > dilemma. > > The end result of all of this is I don't expect to see any community > restructuring soon, because it's sufficiently difficult to drive any sane > person away. :/
Actually, the process given in http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/click.jspa?searchID=102657&messageID=29222 (which allows any opensolaris.org member to raise the issue to the Board) was adopted by the Board. As of yet, neither the Board nor a member has requested that the process be applied to any community. I don't think there would be any harm in proposing a filesystems community, and seeing which specific filesystems communities are willing to self-demote as well--you just have to have the discussion with the various leads. Comments on the charter/constitution would best be shared on cab-discuss, since that's where the Working Group is having its discussions. You might also look at http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Governance to see related documents, subsequent drafts, etc. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
