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

[Mark Phalan]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 12:35 -0700, Krishna Yenduri wrote:
> Mark Phalan wrote:
> > 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.
> >   
> 
>  It bothers me that you have to ask for this.
> 

I think part of the problem is that its not really clear how exactly a
community decides to grant contributor status.
Does it mean all core contributors give a +1?, a majority?, one?

>  FWIW, I second your request.

Thanks.

-Mark

> 
> -Krishna
> 
> > Regards,
> >
> > -Mark
> >
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