Mark Phalan wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 10:30 -0700, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:06:34PM +0200, Mark Phalan wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Does this imply that other project teams (such as Kerberos) who work on
>>> ONNV projects should also be added as contributors?
>>>       
>> As Contributors, yes.  The Constitution requires this; section 7.7
>> reads:
>>
>>     # The Contributors of a Community Group shall include every person
>>     # who has been designated by the Core Contributors of that Group
>>     # to have contributed substantively to that Group's efforts,
>>     # including (but not limited to) every person who has contributed
>>     # intellectual property to the OpenSolaris Community as a result
>>     # of those efforts.
>>
>> The use of the term 'intellectual property' is unfortunate since it is
>> not defined, but I think it's reasonable to read the intent of this
>> language to include contributions of source code, documentation, and
>> possibly other material.
>>
>> It is not necessary, nor in my view appropriate, to name all such
>> individuals Core Contributors.  I would tend to reserve that
>> classification for, perhaps, technical leaders of large-scale projects
>> and those who have made and contributed revolutionary technical
>> advances, as well as those who have provided superlative leadership
>> over a long period of time.  However, the specific criteria for the
>> grant are up to your Community Group; I don't see anything giving the
>> OGB the authority to overrule you.
>>
>>     
>
> Makes sense.
>
> I'd like to ask the security community to grant me contributor status
> based on the code I've contributed to ONNV.
>   

 It bothers me that you have to ask for this.

 FWIW, I second your request.

-Krishna

> Regards,
>
> -Mark
>
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