[ogb-discuss] Device Driver Community

[Alan DuBoff]

OGB,

Per AlanC's comments last week the device driver community is defunct 
and/or doesn't have proper representation for the OpenSolaris community.

I talked with AlanC last week and told him I would send a message to OGB 
discuss.

Unfortunately we do not have a lot of strength in terms of experienced ON 
developers, and none of the leaders listed (myself included) are what I 
would call a core contributer. (I have just added Garrett D'Amore though)

I would like to first understand what type of people the contributers are, 
there seems to be core contributers and contributers.

The only person that I can see being a core contributer is Garrett 
D'Amore, who I've just added as a leader to the community.

It seems there are a lot of leaders that have been added to the device 
driver community from the China team, but I don't see these folks listed 
as leader having the strength and/or skills to be called a core 
contributer.

I will be sending a message out to device-driver-discuss so that the 
community can understand and form the device driver community so we have 
people to represent us.

My reccomendation is to have only 1 core contributer, Garrett.

I will also propose that all changes, such as a device driver addition, 
must be reviewed by specific people of our community, I would like to be 
one but don't need to be a core contributer and/or even contributer to do 
that though. Maybe a process where we have a core contributer and 3 code 
reviewers which require any 2 of the 4 to review code that goes back.

AlanC mentioned that we might want to change the rules so that we could 
allow folks such as Max Brunning to be considered contributers, and to 
some extent I agree, but I think we should be firm and move slower rather 
than faster in this regard. If anything I would like to make it more 
difficult for people to do a putback, and why I think Garrett is the only 
person we can actually call a core contributer at this point.

I would like to start forming our community, and setting up to accept 
drivers from the community, and I think having just a core contributer 
and/or a couple more people to review code would be adequate.

Can I get an explaination on core contributers vs. contributers and/or 
what their specific roles are so that we (i.e., device-driver community 
leaders) can draft up a proposal and/or make the needed changes to have 
the device driver community represented in opensolaris as a whole?

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group