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

[Krishna Yenduri]

Stephen Lau wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>  FWIW, I second your request.
>>
>
> As opposed to doling them out indiscriminately and then having an 
> election be voided because we couldn't drum up enough of the required 
> crontributors to vote?
>
> People who want to participate will.  People who don't, won't.

 Personally, I didn't know an important part of participating in Open 
Solaris
 is getting a contributor status. I am sure there are others who
 are in the same boat.
 
 I recommend we educate and encourage all the registered OpenSolaris members
 to seek contributor status. May be a monthly reminder email on the
 mailing list for each community?

-Krishna