[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[Garrett D'Amore]

Ian Collins wrote:
> Glynn Foster wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>>     
> Thanks Glynn, I wish I'd seen your blog earlier.
>
> While I'm unable to offer an alternative proposition at this stage, I
> think this cause disenfranchises active members of the community who,
> like me, are unable though personal circumstances to devote the time and
> effort required to becoming a core contributor.  It will be seen by the
> world at large as yet another means of keeping non-Sun people out of the
> project governance.
>
> I fear another storm brewing on discuss when this is announced.
>   

I agree. 

There is another problem, as well.  I suspect some people are not
heavily involved with any single group, yet contribute substantially
towards the overall development of Solaris.

For example, I have contributed a variety of things to Solaris over the
years, and most recently for OpenSolaris have the following projects
brewing:

1) afe network driver integration (possibly also mxfe), and updates to
support Nemo
2) grand-unification effort for serial drivers (back-burnered ATM, but
not forgotten)
3) crypto contributions pending (e.g. RNG support for Padlock, that I
hope to post this week)
4) various bits to improve platform support for Tadpole hardware
5) possibly going forward improvements to in-kernel framebuffers (e.g. I
wrote NetBSD radeonfb, which I'd like to port to OpenSolaris)
6) wifi enhancements -- I've got fixes for the PCI prism driver, and
other bits
7) improvements for PS/2 keyboards
8) improvements for touchpads
9) various other minor patches (e.g. rge patch for more NIC support,
xargs, id, and kstat fixes)
10) forthcoming improvements for power management on SPARC platforms (I
hope)

Despite all this, no one group recognizes my contribution as qualifying
for Core Contributor.  (The laptop community might recognize me as a
Contributor, but the current list proposed does not go beyond that.)

I somehow doubt that I'm the only individual that falls "through the
cracks" in the current classification process.

    -- Garrett
> Ian
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