[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[Al Hopper]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> 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.

Then simply reformat this email and post it to cab-discuss with an
appropriate Subject: line (request to be recognized as a core contributor)
and it'll be acted upon.  Any CAB/OBG member can approve the request and I
can tell you that yours and Ians are a no-brainer! :)

But we must apply some form of organized process to these requests and
generate an "audit trail" of sorts, so that a persons right to vote can be
ascertained if there was, for example, a dispute over the election process
or results.

I would request that subject line be adhered to as strictly as possible -
since many OpenSolaris participants are already drowning in a sea of
email!

Regards,

Al Hopper  Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX.  al at logical-approach.com
           Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134  Timezone: US CDT
OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr 2005
             OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Feb 2006