I'm a bit confused as to what the qualifications of the OpenSolaris core contributers is suppose to be. I see many names current and proposed that are definite leaders in the Solaris Security community, but I'm not sure I see how that is translating to the OpenSolaris community. The active involvement in OpenSolaris security projects, in community discussion, etc.
Tony Glenn Brunette wrote: > Darren, > > Thank you for taking point on this. Just to provide a quick pointer, > the URL referenced in Darren's e-mail is: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/contributors/ > > I support this proposal. > > g > > > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> 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. >> >
