[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[Stephen Hahn]

* Bonnie Corwin <Bonnie.Corwin at Sun.COM> [2007-02-06 15:33]:
> I fear I have missed something basic so apologies up front if these are 
> stupid questions.
> 
> But exactly who draws up each community list using what criteria?  Many 
> communities have multiple leaders.  Which leader is expected to submit a 
> list?  And are those people working from a set of criteria?  And how are 
> projects handled?  Most are affiliated with a community - is it the 
> community leader's job to make sure the appropriate people on each 
> affiliated project are accounted for (I was surprised to see Roland's 
> email to the CAB - I would have expected him to show up on a community 
> list that is interested in the ksh93 project)?
> 
> I also wonder if the current list should be posted to 
> opensolaris-discuss with instructions for who to contact if people think 
> they are missing from a list - I believe it's only been posted on 
> cab-discuss which has a smaller audience.

  The leaders are expected to draw up lists.  All leaders have been sent
  multiple requests for contributors and core contributors, to their
  personal email addresses.  (Reminder mails have also been sent to
  opensolaris-discuss.)  The criteria necessarily differ from community
  group to community group--a user group lead is different from an
  advocate in the marketing community is different from the author of a
  technical document is different from a Python programmer.  

  These topics have been well discussed at various CAB/OGB meetings, and
  are represented in the current governance draft.

  The expectation has been that the community leads would recognize that
  their job is more than just put up a web page or moderate a mailing
  list, but to actually create a group dynamic around their area of
  interest.  This maturation has happened for some community groups, but
  not for all.  At some point, the Board will look at the community
  groups, their responsiveness, and their "essentialness" to the larger
  community.  This process will, I believe, allow the community to prune
  out or combine some of the failed community groups.
  
  Evaluating specific cases is beyond my competence (unless they
  appealed to one of the community groups for which I am currently a
  lead). 

  - Stephen
  
-- 
Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/