From peter.tribble at gmail.com  Mon Aug 17 14:38:28 2009
From: peter.tribble at gmail.com (Peter Tribble)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:38:28 +0100
Subject: [approach-discuss] Status of the Approachability Community
Message-ID: <df1347730908171438i60dfda62obc5acfa142880389@mail.gmail.com>

[The OGB understands that the leaders of the Approachability Community
wish to see the community terminate, but this is the same message
we're sending to all such affected communities, so we follow the same
process throughout.]

The Approachability community has less than the required minimum of
3 Core Contributors to govern its affairs and, according to the OpenSolaris
constitution, should be terminated. The OpenSolaris Governing Board can
deal with the situation by:
 A) Terminating the community
 B) Designating at least 3 new Core Contributors in order to
revitalize the community, or
 C) Merge this community with another (possibly as a project).

If community members step up and make a good case for options
B or C within the next 30 days (either by guiding the OGB as to who
the new Core Contributors should be, or by advising the OGB what
nature of merger would be in the best interests of the affected
community) then the OGB will work with the community to take that
option forward. Otherwise, the OGB will ask the website community
to terminate the community group, following the procedure set forth
here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/web/infrastructure-setup/

Thanks,

-- 
-Peter Tribble
OGB Vice-Chair


From jbeck at eng.sun.com  Mon Aug 17 14:50:35 2009
From: jbeck at eng.sun.com (John Beck)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:50:35 -0700
Subject: [approach-discuss] Status of the Approachability Community
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:38:28 BST."
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Peter> [The OGB understands that the leaders of the Approachability Community
Peter> wish to see the community terminate, but this is the same message we're
Peter> sending to all such affected communities, so we follow the same process
Peter> throughout.]

Yes, please terminate this community, which was originally formed as a side-
effect of a Solaris internal organization at the time, but which has long
since outlived its usefulness.  (I.e., the relevant work is being carried
on in other more "technologically native" communities.)  Your suicidally,

-- John

http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck


From peter.tribble at gmail.com  Tue Aug 18 04:28:58 2009
From: peter.tribble at gmail.com (Peter Tribble)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:28:58 +0100
Subject: [approach-discuss] Status of the Approachability Community
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:50 PM, John Beck<jbeck at eng.sun.com> wrote:
> Peter> [The OGB understands that the leaders of the Approachability Community
> Peter> wish to see the community terminate, but this is the same message we're
> Peter> sending to all such affected communities, so we follow the same process
> Peter> throughout.]
>
> Yes, please terminate this community, which was originally formed as a side-
> effect of a Solaris internal organization at the time, but which has long
> since outlived its usefulness. ?(I.e., the relevant work is being carried
> on in other more "technologically native" communities.) ?Your suicidally,

;-)

That's pretty clear cut, then. Is there any content on the website
that needs to be
preserved? I can see some old nwam docs, but that's about all.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/


From jbeck at eng.sun.com  Tue Aug 18 10:19:38 2009
From: jbeck at eng.sun.com (John Beck)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:19:38 -0700
Subject: [approach-discuss] Status of the Approachability Community
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Peter> Is there any content on the website that needs to be preserved?
Peter> I can see some old nwam docs, but that's about all.

No.  Even those NWAM docs are old, and each has a "This page has moved!
The old content is below, but see ... for the latest content." note
displayed conspicuously at the top.  So, fire away; thanks.

-- John

http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck