[arc-discuss] The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

[John Plocher]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Any ARC only gets my approval in case it does not allow a few people to 
> dominate others. 

The core contributers of any OS.o community group are explicitly empowered
to dominate the observers and non-core contributers in their community;
they are the decision makers for their community, and their authority over
their community is the basis of the OS.o governance model.

I understand your feelings, but, in your case, they seem to be without
justification.  According to poll.os.o, you are a core contributer only
in the OGB community[1], and then only because you produced the first
independent distro based on the code found on OpenSolaris.org.  It is
noteworthy that, in light of your demonstrated talent and track record
for independently producing groundbreaking and useful software, you have
chosen to not become a core contributer in /any/ of the other OS.o
communities, including the software producing ones (ON, X, Desktop, SFW,
NWSC, G11N, ...), or to actually contribute anything other than email.

Because you have chosen to have your code remain independent of the OS.o
world, nothing we do here (including the ARC) really affects you or your
software;  you aren't asking us to incorporate any of your bits, and we
aren't demanding that you change anything in your distro.

This also means that, since you are not a core contributer in any of the
real OS.o community groups (including the ARC community), you do not have
a binding say in their activities or decisions.  In this discussion, you
don't have any "approval" to give, though your opinions do get heard.

This is easy for you to change, by the way.  All you need to do is become
an active, contributing member of one of the community groups and convince
the existing core contributers there that you, too, should be given core
contributer status - at which point your approval will start to matter.

   -John

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[1] AFAICT, being a Core Contributer in the "at large" OGB community
simply is a mechanism that allows one to be an OS.o member (and thus
vote on community-wide referendums and OGB elections) without actually
being engaged with community groups and their projects.  In particular,
the OGB "Community of At Large Core Contributers" have no say whatsoever
in the decisions made by the OGB itself or of any other community group.