The Community/Project re-organization plan from the OpenSolaris
Governance Board suggests merging the X & Desktop communities,
and making X a project under the Desktop community.
Historically, X has been a community since it was created before
the opensolaris.org website supported projects. Since only projects
can host code though, it seems the move to become a project was
inevitable. (For those not up on the OpenSolaris structure,
a Community is a group in the OpenSolaris governance system which
may sponsor Projects to do actual work.)
This merger would also more closely mirror the current Solaris
Desktop C-Team structure, where the Desktop C-Team oversees the
JDS & X consolidations - eventually the Desktop C-Team will be
part of the Desktop Community, overseeing the JDS & X projects,
which host the consolidations.
So here's a draft proposal - once finalized, I think we'll need
to hold a vote of both communities to adopt it:
- The Desktop & X community groups will merge into the Desktop
Community. The Desktop Community will sponsor a X Window
System project.
- xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org will become the mailing list of
the X project.
- The pages on http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/
will move to http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/x_win/ ,
with redirects left in place from their old home.
- The Core Contributors of the X community (myself, Stuart &
Jay) will become Core Contributors of the Desktop Community.
- Though we hadn't named any non-core Contributors of the X
Community yet, I would like to nominate these people to
become Contributors of the Desktop community once we finish
the merger, in recognition of their participation in the
X Community - this will enable them to become Core Contributors
in the future:
- Martin Bochnig - for his work towards providing SPARC
graphics drivers for Xorg
- John Martin - for helping many people on the OpenSolaris
mailing lists with their X configuration problems
Does this sound reasonable to everyone?
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
