Krishna Yenduri wrote: > 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. >
As opposed to doling them out indiscriminately and then having an election be voided because we couldn't drum up enough of the required crontributors to vote? People who want to participate will. People who don't, won't. cheers, steve -- stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development
