On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:12:26AM +0200, Frank Batschulat (Home) wrote:

> Keith, I must admit I'm just baffled.

The Constitution (for better or worse) clearly states that Groups
sponsor projects.  They don't sponsor themselves, and they don't just
spring into being.  The OGB is tasked with implementing the
Constitution's provisions, and we've tried to do that in as simple and
lightweight a way as possible.  Indeed, if your Community Group had
done as most of the other 43 did and assigned an initial set of Core
Contributors (more below) a few months ago, this project request would
already have been automatically approved.

> I do have core contributor status in ON and btw, I am the UFS CRT advocate
> so I wonder how this group can not have at least 1 core contributor.

It does not because, between 3 and 6 months ago when Stephen Hahn was
soliciting the initial set of Contributor and Core Contributor grants,
the UFS Community did not respond (or, if it did, your response was
not acted on - this would be cause for grave concern).  Every Group's
grants of Contributor and Core Contributor status are independent of
all others', and are listed at http://poll.opensolaris.org/ on the
Grants tab.

> I also do know that Frank Hofmann has core contributor status as well
> as probably Sarah as the "owner" of this community.

The "owner" or "leader" status is a misnomer, a bug in the web site we
are trying to get fixed.  The proper term would be "editor" as the
only privilege it actually conveys is the ability to edit the site.
That said, those in this list were the people Stephen asked to submit
the initial grants lists.

But let's forget all that for a moment.  It sounds like you have 3
Core Contributors in mind.  All that's needed to solve this problem is
to tell the OGB that you'd like to become a functional Group again and
that you and the two other engineers are its Core Contributors.  Then
your project request will be valid and it will be created.  Please
don't see this as a heavyweight thing - one 2- or 3-line message is
all it will take to solve this problem for good.

-- 
Keith M Wesolowski              "Sir, we're surrounded!" 
FishWorks                       "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" 
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