Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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
Please include Carl and Henry. Henry should be considered a core contributor. Stuart > > Does this sound reasonable to everyone? >
