[ogb-discuss] [tools-discuss] Tools CG and Website Project membership

[Alan Burlison]

Keith M Wesolowski wrote:

> 4.3 implies that Membership goes away with the last Core Contributor
> grant.  However, 7.8 reads in part:
> 
>     # In addition, each designation of Core Contributor status results
>     # in a grant of Member status for the OpenSolaris Community as a
>     # whole, with a duration of two (2) years from the date of said
>     # grant ...
> 
> Which implies that they're separate things with the same expiration
> date.

No it doesn't.  Section 7.8 is about the granting of CC status, Sections 
  4.2 and 4.3 are about Membership - in fact Section 7.8 explicitly 
states that Sections 4.2 and 4.3 define the rules for Membership. 
There's no conflict here, but you seem to be determined to generate one 
- for what purpose I do not know.

> This needs to be clarified.  The simplest way to do so is to amend the
> constitution as follows:

[snip]

That's not a clarification, it is a modification.

>> I guess the difference is that in your case you explicitly resigned?
> 
> It's clear that Mr. Burlison wishes to be neither a Core Contributor
> to any Group nor a Member.  So regardless of what the actual
> constitutional intent may have been, he's neither.

Correct.  And this sort of obsession with constitutional navel fluff - 
which seems to be one of the main preoccupations of the OpenSolaris 
Community - was just one of the reasons behind my decision.  Thank you 
for reinforcing it.

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Alan Burlison
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