[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[John Plocher]

Glynn Foster wrote:
> Sorry all, but I have to agree with Ian, and I can understand his reactions 

You make some good points.

The ARC Community has been very active recently, at least judging by the email
flying around.  Lets use it as an example:

In terms of this voting list, who is the ARC community?

My initial take was pretty simple

     The current PSARC members (core) and interns/licensees (contributers)
     plus myself :-)

but, in light of Glynn and Ian's comments, this no longer seems sufficient.
As I look deeper, I find several sources I missed:

     The list of community leaders on the website (chosen to facilitate
     website maintenance rather than make architectural decisions)

     The list of community observers on the website

     The list of people contributing to the email discussions on
     the opensolaris-arc and arc-discuss aliases.

     The list of project team leads for the cases that were
     reviewed by PSARC that went into Nevada.

On the other hand, the ARC community isn't just another community.
In theory, the ARC community should really be (by definition) the
superset of all the other community's core members - after all,
the goal is to have *us* reviewing *our* stuff - and, if you are
not active somewhere else, why should you have standing/voice/vote
here?

So, how should I select who is on the magic ARC community list?
What should we be telling othere?  How do we know when we are done?
What is magic about /me that I am the one who gets to decide these
things?


   -John