[cab-discuss] test questions to test OGB election process (presented as a poll)

[Garrett D'Amore]

Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:00:26PM -0600, Al Hopper wrote:
>
>   
>> Remember the goal is to increase Opensolaris developer mindshare.
>>     
>
> Is it?  I thought our highest-level objective is to produce the best
> operating system possible.  The OGB is chartered to coordinate and
> facilitate that effort for the benefit of those participating in it.
> Increasing mindshare is nice and a worthy goal insofar as it allows us
> to get more top-quality work done, and it is the stated purpose of the
> Marketing Community.  But it's not the primary purpose of the OGB.
>
> This poll is indeed shaping up to be interesting, but I would expect
> that those who can vote, if this is to be an all-up test, are the Core
> Contributors.  They will likely be voting based on their needs with
> respect to getting their work done, not (except possibly for those
> leading the Marketing Community) on the basis of increasing mindshare.
>
> I'd hate to think we're losing focus and shifting to a World
> Domination way of thinking at the expense of immediate and practical
> engineering necessity.  I'm guessing that's not what you intended;
> nevertheless, I do hope people who've tuned in to participate in the
> OGB election don't get the wrong idea: the OGB's main job at this
> point is to help people work efficiently and in concert.
>
>   

+1.

World Domination (errr..... mindshare) is a means to an end.  That end
is to produce the best OS out there.  Increasing developer mindshare
increases the number of resources thrown at the problem (without saying
anything about the "quality" of those resources), and also helps
minimize gaps in application support.

OGB's primary goal should be to facilitate the development of the OS,
but as part of that goal, I do not believe they can ignore mindshare.

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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
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