[desktop-discuss] Request and policy proposal re: contributor status

[Eric Boutilier]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I don't think I have a grant of any kind from this community.
>
> But I would say that unless the _only_ thing that the Desktop community is 
> doing is spec files, then it doesn't make sense to use that as a (sole) 
> metric for grants.

Well I totally agree. I suppose I could have been more clear when I
said "Additionally, in the interest of establishing a general policy in
this regard...". I didn't mean the Desktop Community in general, I
meant SFE contributors in general (as opposed to making this a one-off
request for one person.)

Eric

> And indeed, any particular metric is likely to fall apart 
> at some time.  I'd think nomination by "n" (for some small value of "n") of 
> core contributors, and no nays from the current core contributors, would be 
> sufficient.
>
> Certainly, it does make sense to give grants out to folks who have 
> demonstrated by their repeated contributions (of any kind) to the projects 
> that are being endorsed by the community.
>
>   -- Garrett
>
> Eric Boutilier wrote:
>> I'd like to request core contributor status[1] in the Desktop community
>> group for my contributions[2] to the spec-files-extra project (aka
>> pkgbase). Additionally, in the interest of establishing a general
>> policy in this regard, I'd like to propose that core contributor status
>> in the Desktop community group be granted to members who make/made at
>> least one contribution (change or create, plus commit) to some minimum
>> number of different spec files.
>> 
>> Thoughts in general?
>> 
>> In specific, how about setting the number at 25? Too high? Too low?
>> Just right?
>> 
>> If it were 25, it would have the following effect[3]: The OpenSolaris
>> grant status of five people would be elevated. Two would be changed
>> from contributor (in the Desktop CG) to core contributor, and three
>> (who currently have no grant status) would become core contributors.
>> 
>> --Eric
>> 
>> 
>> [1] Currently the following people have core contributor status
>>     in the Desktop community group: davelam - Dave Lin; dcarbery
>>     - Damien Carbery; dermot - Dermot McCluskey; dkenny - Darren
>>     Kenny; gman - Glynn Foster; laca - Laca Peter; padraig -
>>     Padraig O'Briain; yippi - Brian Cameron
>> 
>> [2] In specific, I've made change/create + commit contributions
>>     once or more to ~105 different spec files.
>> 
>> [3] Based on an "unaudited" analysis of change log notes I
>>     just did.
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