[ogb-discuss] [security-discuss] contributor grants for crypto project team members

[Mark Phalan]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 10:30 -0700, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:06:34PM +0200, Mark Phalan wrote:
> 
> > Does this imply that other project teams (such as Kerberos) who work on
> > ONNV projects should also be added as contributors?
> 
> As Contributors, yes.  The Constitution requires this; section 7.7
> reads:
> 
>     # The Contributors of a Community Group shall include every person
>     # who has been designated by the Core Contributors of that Group
>     # to have contributed substantively to that Group's efforts,
>     # including (but not limited to) every person who has contributed
>     # intellectual property to the OpenSolaris Community as a result
>     # of those efforts.
> 
> The use of the term 'intellectual property' is unfortunate since it is
> not defined, but I think it's reasonable to read the intent of this
> language to include contributions of source code, documentation, and
> possibly other material.
> 
> It is not necessary, nor in my view appropriate, to name all such
> individuals Core Contributors.  I would tend to reserve that
> classification for, perhaps, technical leaders of large-scale projects
> and those who have made and contributed revolutionary technical
> advances, as well as those who have provided superlative leadership
> over a long period of time.  However, the specific criteria for the
> grant are up to your Community Group; I don't see anything giving the
> OGB the authority to overrule you.
> 

Makes sense.

I'd like to ask the security community to grant me contributor status
based on the code I've contributed to ONNV.

Regards,

-Mark