On 06/11/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It has been well over a year that we have been a self-governing body. > >The fact that the mechanisms we have are not used and that so little > >progress in certain areas has been made implies to me that they do not > >work. > > What specific areas are you thinking of? How is progress hampered > and how could a more active governing body have helped?
The constitution states communities are responsible for "product development and marketing tasks." So far, I do not believe there has been sufficient progress in those areas. If product development here means "technical aspects"; then certainly there has been progress. However, if "product development" means having an end-result of the collective efforts of our community, then Project Indiana is the only project *on* OpenSolaris.org that represents that at this time. The fact that no initiative existed on OpenSolaris.org before this bears further investigation as to why. Specifically, I think the following are what concerns me: 1) No end-product until recently (which when finally delivered was unfairly vilified over its name) 2) The lack of any community distributions having a presence on OpenSolaris.org other than Project Indiana (which some see as a Sun distribution) 3) The insufficient delegation or definition of "product development and marketing tasks" 4) The inability for the community to drive the content of this website directly 5) The lack of a defined contribution process for each project 6) The lack of a better definition of what decisions the community should vote on and when 7) The confusion over who has authority over what aspects / areas of the community > Two things are needed for progress: doing stuff and deciding what needs to > be done. > > I think we do not, at this point, have an abundant pool of labor that > can be set to certain tasks, so I don't see how being more decisive is > going to be of any help. Being decisive helps since I think we would have more contributors if what needed to be done was clearly defined. Not only that, how to contribute that work also needs clear definition. > You can be a dictator but you need an army to control before you can > make things happen. > > Or is it not clear enough what needs to happen? Yes. > A clear lists of tasks, perhaps? Yes, the "delegation of product development and marketing tasks"; I do not feel that it has been sufficiently addressed. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
