[desktop-discuss] Merging the Desktop & X communities

[Karl Gaffney]

Reasonable to me also.

-Karl.

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> The Community/Project re-organization plan from the OpenSolaris
> Governance Board suggests merging the X & Desktop communities,
> and making X a project under the Desktop community.
> 
> Historically, X has been a community since it was created before
> the opensolaris.org website supported projects.   Since only projects
> can host code though, it seems the move to become a project was
> inevitable.   (For those not up on the OpenSolaris structure,
> a Community is a group in the OpenSolaris governance system which
> may sponsor Projects to do actual work.)
> 
> This merger would also more closely mirror the current Solaris
> Desktop C-Team structure, where the Desktop C-Team oversees the
> JDS & X consolidations - eventually the Desktop C-Team will be
> part of the Desktop Community, overseeing the JDS & X projects,
> which host the consolidations.
> 
> So here's a draft proposal - once finalized, I think we'll need
> to hold a vote of both communities to adopt it:
> 
>  - The Desktop & X community groups will merge into the Desktop
>    Community.   The Desktop Community will sponsor a X Window
>    System project.
> 
>  - xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org will become the mailing list of
>    the X project.
> 
>  - The pages on http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/
>    will move to http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/x_win/ ,
>    with redirects left in place from their old home.
> 
>  - The Core Contributors of the X community (myself, Stuart &
>    Jay) will become Core Contributors of the Desktop Community.
> 
>  - Though we hadn't named any non-core Contributors of the X
>    Community yet, I would like to nominate these people to
>    become Contributors of the Desktop community once we finish
>    the merger, in recognition of their participation in the
>    X Community - this will enable them to become Core Contributors
>    in the future:
> 
>    - Martin Bochnig - for his work towards providing SPARC
>      graphics drivers for Xorg
> 
>    - John Martin - for helping many people on the OpenSolaris
>      mailing lists with their X configuration problems
> 
> Does this sound reasonable to everyone?
>