[arc-discuss] The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

[Martin Bochnig]

Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Martin Bochnig wrote:
>   
>> John Plocher wrote:
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>>     
>>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
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>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Any ARC only gets my approval in case it does not allow a few people to 
>>>> dominate others. 
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>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> 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.
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>> John. I don't get it:
>>
>> At the absolute minimum three things instantly come into mind, that 
>> Joerg Schilling has DIRECTLY core_contributed:
>>
>> cdrecord
>>
>> smake  (your problem, if you prove unable to integrate it into ON)
>>
>> the first ever distro_creation_toolkit (as early as in late summer 2005)
>> In Joerg schilling's position I would have left months ago.
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>>     
>
> err, s-tar. smake would be the 4th.
> And he maintains mkisofs. And .....

his back-porting of the open-src version of libmath to Solaris, and ...

Weeellll, of course: That doesn't make him a core contri, no: For that 
you have to know the right people, to be on the right sub-community, to 
post enough smileys, or ... to write a man page??
Or is it the fact that one gets paid which makes others 
triple-core_contri's in one person?