The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

[Joseph Kowalski]

James Carlson wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski writes:
>   
>>> <http://poll.opensolaris.org/#tab2>
>>>
>>> I don't know how that is being managed.
>>>       
>> This is just an automated "voting machine".  It seems to have nothing to 
>> do with how "citizenship" is determined or checked.
>>     
>
> I believe you're actually mistaken about that.  The "automated voting"
> machine you're looking at relies on the live membership database.
>   
(It still has nothing how "citizenship" is determined. Article 7.8 seems 
to cover that.
Its nice to know that has enough smarts to check a membership database 
for citizens.)
> It seems a little weird, but the best way to tell who the "core
> contributors" (voters) are in a community is to go to that
> poll.opensolaris.org site and search.
>
> It'd be cooler if there were some automatic "click here to see
> contributors and core contributors" link on each community web page.
> It'd be cooler still if the group facilitator or core contributors
> could update that list themselves.  I think there are missing tool
> features here, but no missing data.
>   
It seems that each community page seems to have such a link.
>> Actually, section 7.8 of the Constitution has the "rules" for core 
>> contributor status (as I asked about).  It seems that nobody has just 
>> bothered to bother to list the annointed ones for each community.  
>> Within a community, this is what I expected.  This seems to be nothing 
>> more than a failure to act.
>>     
>
> I don't agree.
>
> Plus, I think having each group separately inventing its own way to
> denote the various kinds of members would lead to chaos.  It's
> centralized now, and we should build on that instead.
>   
This is (my BTW #2) seems to have been much ado about nothing.  My 
apologies.

As before, my BTW #1 seems to still be rather interesting.

- jek3