[ogb-discuss] 2008 OGB Election

[ken mays]

James,

Oh, no. I was actually asked why I DIDN'T have a core
contributor status. I guess I never bothered to
request it after all these years. ;o)

So, I just did.

I've been a OpenSolaris Desktop advocater and
contributor since Y2005:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=2183&tstart=1245

My point was really on seeing 'everyone (i.e. the
community)' has a chance to participate and vote -
while also having fairness in the OGB not being too
"Sun-heavy" in presence (i.e. having more than one OGB
member being non-Sun employed community member/core
contributor seems fair).

~K


---> 
Ken Mays writes:
> I'm concerned as even though many of us may be
deemed as
 'contributors' versus 'core contributors' - as a
contributor may have contributed
 just as much as the average core contributor.

If you've asked the existing core contributors to a
community group to
designate you as a core contributor, and they haven't
done so, and
can't adequately explain why they won't, then that
sounds like it
could be a legitimate dispute that the OGB could
address.

But if you haven't asked or otherwise pursued "core
contributor"
status, then I'm not sure what we're to make of this
concern, or how
the OGB should be at all involved.  I don't think
there's any
requirement that community groups should go out and
recruit new core
contributors from among those who haven't shown an
interest.

So, can you clarify your concern?  Is this just a
general unease with
the way the groups are constituted, or a report of a
specific dispute
with a certain group?

-- 
James Carlson, Solaris Networking            
  <james.d.carlson at sun.com


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