[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

Stephen Hahn wrote:
> * Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com> [2007-02-05 11:43]:
>> Sorry, I must have missed that in all the noise.
>>
>> I just felt excluded from something I've been contributing as much as I
>> can to over the past 20 months.
> 
>   There are numerous Community Groups out there able to nominate Core
>   Contributors, including the OGB/CAB.  If your contributions are in a
>   specific area, I would start a discussion with the existing Core
>   Contributors there; if you've mostly been in the main forums, then
>   approach one or more OGB members with your case. 

Sorry all, but I have to agree with Ian, and I can understand his reactions to
it [http://www.gnome.org/~gman/blog/26012007]. As I see it, it's not a fair
reflection of the people involved in the community at all - in most cases, it's
the result of some pretty bad feedback from the various communities, with not a
lot of thought going into the list and its consequences [1]

Quite what can be done at this stage, I have no idea.


Glynn

[1] And in some ways it's absolutely correct eg. DTrace - Bryan, Adam, Mike and
    Brendan were all *heavily* responsible for the code they wrote and they
    have the right to feel proud of that. On the other hand, it's not terribly
    encouraging to others trying to get more involved. I picked DTrace as one
    example, there's other examples of course too (including Desktop).