Stephen Lau wrote: > 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.
Personally, I didn't know an important part of participating in Open Solaris is getting a contributor status. I am sure there are others who are in the same boat. I recommend we educate and encourage all the registered OpenSolaris members to seek contributor status. May be a monthly reminder email on the mailing list for each community? -Krishna
