We need to update our contributor and core contributor grants list for the up and coming election and because it is the time of the year when apparently we are supposed to do this. As your nominated community facilitator I'm starting the public community discussion on this.
The current list of contributors can be found by going to http://poll.opensolaris.org and sorting by community - when I looked today the Security grants started on page 11. Some of the existing core contributors have been having some offline discussion about the criteria we should employee for getting contributor and core contributor status from the OpenSolaris security community. For some context the ON community is granting most people who have ever done an ON putback (either directly or sponsored) contributor status and some people core contributor based on the volume or complexity of their putbacks. We as a community need to choose how the Security Community of OpenSolaris grants contributor and core contributor status. Until now we have done this on a rather ad-hoc basis roughtly based on contributions to projects sponsored by Security community and hosted on OpenSolaris - there have been some exceptions. A model similar to what the ON community has done is more appropriate in some peoples view in that indirect contribution should be acknowledged as well. In think in reality we need a hybrid of the two particularly to distinguish contributor from core contributor. Rather than spend endless hours of further discussion I've updated the security community contributors page[1] with my first cut of a set of new and changed grants. Only the existing core contributors can actually vote but I'm more than happy to have input from all existing and potential contributors. If anyone believes they, or someone else, have been missed out or incorrectly classified please do speak up it was likely an unintended omission on my part. This is just an initial draft and I fully expect it to change. I want to acknowledge that it isn't just engineers writing code that contribute. In particular I'd like to see nominations for non Sun engineers getting contributor status via this community if anyone believes someone deserves that. Lets try and wrap this all up by Friday 15th Feb. -- Darren J Moffat
