Alan Coopersmith wrote:
[Added ogb-discuss, since that's where any real change has to
happen - opensolaris-discuss will get you nothing useful.]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Within the OpenSolaris community, we have some arbitrary
designations we give to people - contributor and community
leader are amongst these.
Contributor is defined by the OpenSolaris constitution.
Leader is an artifact of the website tools, and really means
"Person who can edit website" - that's the only extra permissions,
powers, or duties that they get.
I'd like to propose that how "contributor" status is designated
such that it is granted to anyone and everyone that is in a
position to do a putback or commit to the OpenSolaris code base.
Then you need to propose an amendment to the OpenSolaris constitution
we all just ratified. It currently states:
Contributor. A participant who has been acknowledged by one or
more Community Groups as having substantively contributed toward
accomplishing the tasks of that Community Group, or by the OGB for
at-large contributions, shall be termed an OpenSolaris Contributor.
Such designation is permanent and persists regardless of the person's
current level of activity or status within the Community. A
Contributor
may request that their status not be published or published only in
the form of a pseudonym that is unique within the Community.
What would you like to change it to? And why would that be better
than just asking the various Communities such as ON, Desktop, Storage,
etc. to name the appropriate people as Contributors?
Ultimately, I'd like to see it removed.
*Everyone* should be a contributor or able to be one.
I don't think we need (or should need) arbitrary "badges" to
stick on people that are otherwise meaningless.
Or at least that is the model I think we should be aspiring to.
Right now, this would mean that all of those inside Sun who work
on Solaris would immediately be given "Contributor" status.
Could you even come up with a complete list of those people,
short of just giving us a data dump of the entire Sun employee
database? I surely couldn't, even if I thought this was a good idea.
About the best I could come up with would be to do a dump of
people in the software part of the organisation that have the
relevant employee level (I think Z*?) to indicate they're an engineer
and not a mangler.
The benefit here is that there are some things that only
"contributors" appear to be able to do and what they can't
do only serves as a barrier for them to properly engage in
various OpenSolaris communities.
As far as I know there is nothing we've intentionally set up that
only Contributors can do. I know the person setting up the Code
Review site chose to make it Contributor only - as far as I know,
he decided to do that on his own, without consulting the OGB.
And this is the basis of my comment. I wasn't aware that the
cr.opensolaris.org wasn't actually part of the OGB direction.
I'd encourage the OGB to consider taking action to make the
code review site, cr.opensolaris.org, more easily available to
a greater number of community members.
Darren
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