[ogb-discuss] Project creation guidelines (was: OGB Meeting Minutes :: 11/04/07)

[Eric Boutilier]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> * Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM> [2007-04-16 20:16]:
>>> ...
>>> 2) Project creation guidelines
>>>
>>>  Keith proposed the board should tackle the project creation
>>>  process.  Steve like the fact that there was a relatively low
>>>  barrier to creation...
>>
>> It might be worth considering some kind of specific way to accommodate the
>> "Howard Roarks" of the coding world, e.g. lone-wolf programmers. Maybe this
>> could be a tradeoff kind of setup. They get to use opensolaris.org space,
>> tools, etc., but they don't get all the rights that fully endorsed projects
>> get (which they probably wouldn't care much about anyway).

I see this was not addressed by `OGB/2007/001, Project creation
enhancements'. Presumably (correct me if I'm wrong) that is mainly due to
the resource limitation Stephen points out below and not because we want to
steer these types of people elsewhere.

Eric

>
>  If you're asking for individual SCMs and web trees (and mailing
>  lists?), then my answer is "at present, we have enough machine
>  resources to enable it, but not enough human resources to build and
>  support it".  As the infrastructure/website project continues to open
>  up, we may be able to revisit this topic.