Martin Bochnig wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Martin Bochnig wrote: >>>> Have you emailed the X Window System Community and >>>> asked for core contributor status? I'm sure you are more than >>>> qualified. >>> We had done this. We (Moinak and I) had been told it would "depend on >>> our future behaviour, and then they would decide". Message must be in >>> the xwin archives somewhere, back last July or August. >> I don't remember you asking. > > Ah, yes: I recall that you have a selective memory: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2007-October/002453.html
So where's the pointer to the message in July or August where you asked? I can't find one in the archives. The one time I remember you asking anywhere for Core Contributor status was during the election, in which you got recognized by the OGB for your work on the Martux distribution. >> When I proposed the FOX project > > You have proposed it? > I had long before, only not under the name "FOX". > See xwin archives beginning in April 2006. > URL's on demand! I see mail from you about all your hard work on Martux, but no proposal to create a joint project to combine your efforts with the Sun team's and Moinak's in a single shared code repository in the archives from April-October 2006. > "based on that work" ??? > Yes, true. We didn't push our code into the mercurial gate, but rather > released stuff on external file servers, for several reasons that don't > matter here. > But didn't we release the full complete diffs and tarballs??? Yes, and I'll admit to not thinking about it - but I'll also admit to not thinking often about who deserves Core Contributor status - we've used it so rarely (the X community has only had one item come to a vote - the creation of the FOX project) that it's not something I worry about. > If you don't have the Alzheimer's desease you cannot have forgotten my > full-time involvement. I have not forgotten it nor disputed it. > It is also unlikely your partner/boss Mr. "S. > [anonymoous]" would have gently picked me up from SFO Intl. airport to > drive me to Menlo Park and introduce me to the whole rest of the X > server group if I hadn't done something that looks important enough to you: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2007-October/002598.html Stuart Kreitman picked you up at the airport - he is a peer of mine, another engineer in the X group, not my boss. You met our boss, Fred, that day and at the summit. Again, I have not disputed that you've done a lot of work. > Seeing you now writing lied half-truths like above ("based on that > work") I will accept that I may have forgotten or made a mistake, but I do not believe that I have ever lied to you or about you. >> That shouldn't stop anyone else, including yourself, who thinks either >> you or Moinak deserve Core Contributor status for that or other work, >> from requesting that of the community. >> > > How do you define this? Haven't enough mails been written? There are plenty of examples in other communities - the format is simple, either "I nominate ______ for Core Contributor status" or "I request Core Contributor status for myself" or equivalent language on the mailing list for that community. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
