Michelle Olson wrote: Thanks Michelle.
In preparation for a meeting, I would like to see what we agree on. It appears there is general consensus from the OGB and members of the opensolaris.org website team that Constitutional roles should not be used to define website rights. Is this true? If true, what steps can we take to make this a reality? What are the hurdles we must clear? We can do it in phases if needed. Also, if there are Constitutional issues, which I don't see yet (see below). Then, I don't see why the OGB can't put forth a specific Constitutional interruption policy that allows progress until a new Constitution is approved. Also, I added some comments to the bugs.
This first one is filed against the auth webapp for an exception list related to the concern about Contributor status being for life. http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10063
I added this to the bug: ---- Constitutional roles should not be used to define website rights. Period. A new term like "Editor" should be used to establish website editing rights. ----
This second bug is an OGB bug (that could very well be a duplicate, but I'm not sure) against the Constitution for a separate, new role called Member that includes only the voting right. I believe I've correctly stated in the bug description that the auth app already has the data structures in place (via the electorate collective) and we just need to get the member role defined and approved in the new Constitution. Jim Gris, let me know if I've mis-characterized things in the description of this bug. http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10062
I added this to the bug: ---- Section 3.1 of the OpenSolaris Constitution (see below) clearly defines the Member role and its equivalence to the Core Contributor role relative to voting. So, I think this bug can be closed since the Member role is already available for use. --- 3.1. Structure. The OpenSolaris Community is structured as an organization of volunteer participants in which Members are given the right to vote on Community-wide decisions, the most significant of which is to elect an OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) to be responsible for overall day-to-day operations and representation of the organization to third parties. The OGB, in turn, delegates the organization and decision-making for specific OpenSolaris activities, such as product development and marketing tasks, through the creation of Community Groups. Each Community Group consists of participants and contributors, a subset of whom become long-term Core Contributors and are given the responsibility for governance within the Community Group. Finally, the set of all individuals that have been named by one or more Community Groups as Core Contributors are the Members who are given the right to vote on Community-wide decisions. ---- Cheers, Jim _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
