Anon Y Mous wrote: ...
On a different note I don't know why Sun doesn't just give Masayuki Murayama "core device driver contributor" status so that he can freely work on fixing bugs in NIC drivers without having to run through the whole "sponsorship obstacle course". If you look at how many Solaris device drivers he has written over the years, I think he has earned the it.
All contributions by non-Sun employees have to go that route, there isn't a special classification available to give him, however well Murayama may have earned it. However, regular contributors do tend to end up with ongoing relationships with sponsors who get them in efficiently and make the sponsorship avenue not onerous.
We'd need to advance the "external gate" development process further to streamline it any further, I believe.
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