[desktop-discuss] Desktop core/Contributors was Re: Contributor grant for Albert Lee

[Ghee Teo]

+1. Welcome Albert!

While on the topic, I like to raise a discussion on the formation of 
contributors
and core contributors for the desktop communities. Starting with some 
questions:
- Community leaders - are they the same as core contributors?
- Where are  the list of desktop contributors?
  (I know there was a list put up for election of OGB) Should they not 
be placed
  on the community page? Creating a list of core contributors and 
contributors
  for each some communities may help new comers to ping these people for
  involvement.
- While all of the desktop team in Sun are contributing to desktop 
projects in one
way or another, very few are being acknowledged as contributors or even core
contributors. One can argue that they got paid anyway and have access to 
the svn
etc. But that is wrong approach I think. Without the acknowledgment, 
some people
will do the minimum while others will definitely have no incentive of 
doing more.

- Also there is a growing awareness from the management within Sun to 
identify
open source experience and contribution, formalizing the list of core 
contributors and
contributors is the win-win thing to do now.

Before we get into the details who/how one is acknowledged to be a 
core/contributers,
do I get buy in from existing core/contributors to formalize this? :)


-Ghee



Stephen Lau wrote:
> I'd like to propose the Desktop Community grant Contributor status to 
> Albert Lee.
> He's done notable work and contributors in various Desktop related 
> projects, Compiz, SFE, etc.
>
> cheers,
> steve
>
>