[ogb-discuss] LDoms Community Proposal redux ...

[Stephen Lau]

John Plocher wrote:
> Stephen Lau wrote:
>> With a key difference being that ON went and built its own website and 
>> infrastructure: opensolaris.org.  ON wasn't joining anyone else's community.
>>
>> If LDoms wants to pursue that path, then more power to it.  But it's 
>> seeking to join our community, and as such, should play nice by how our 
>> community feels.
> 
> 
> No disagreement here - just don't set up a us-vs-them system where
> "they" have to jump thru more hoops than we ourselves do...
> 
> My "vote" is to let them do what they desire; it takes nothing
> away from ON or OS.o to have more stuff and more people in the
> community; after all, OS.o has always been intended to be much
> much more than simply a place to open source the ON consolidation.
> 
> Even if we guess wrong and the LDOM folks can't make a go of things
> in the long term, we still don't lose.  I don't see any downside to
> spinning up another CG for this effort - and I see a huge downside
> to throwing arbitrary obstacles in their path.
> 
> <cynicism>
>      On the other hand, if this all means we need to de-charter
>      ON as a community group because it isn't meeting those same
>      requirements...
> </cynicism>
> 
>     -John   (Sometimes we seem to be our own worst enemy) Plocher

As I alluded to in one of my other emails - I think we do potentially 
lose.  What happens if next year's election rolls around, and we fail to 
reach the 50% required turnout?  What if we fail to reach it by the 13 
votes that we just gave to the LDom folks?  (Not to pick on them - I'm 
just using them as the convenient example we're currently debating)

If Community Groups and voting privileges were disconnected more, then 
I'd be more open to this.

cheers,
steve

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