[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Shawn Walker]

On 31/10/2007, Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com> wrote:
> Simon Phipps wrote:
>
> >>   Who is it?  I think it's an important question.
> >
> > There is no arbiter - that would imply a political frame. This is an
> > open source community - we iterate until we need to fall back on plan B.
> > Hopefully that doesn't happen.
>
> That's ridiculous.  We then end up having meta-arguments about who
> decides/when it is appropriate for there to be a vote.  If there is no
> effective process for deciding when a vote is appropriate, then there is
> effectively no voting process at all.
>
> Article III
> Members are given the right to vote on Community-wide decisions
>
> How?

I think that's one of the holes in the current constitution. As far as
I know, the only way for a vote to happen is for the OGB to call one
either because they decided to or because a proposal was brought to
them by the representative of a community group(s).

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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