[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[Richard Lowe]

Al Hopper wrote:
> 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! :)
> 

How about, rather than doing this for everyone who happens to notice, 
someone lean on the communities (again) to get the lists drawn up properly?

-- Rich