[cab-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Anniversary activities

[Laura Ramsey]

Moazam Raja wrote:

> Unfortunately, Stephen is right (not that he needed me to say so).
>
> You could very well run into a situation where someone thinks "Hey, I  
> submitted 12 bugs and my name wasn't picked but some guy who won a  
> lottery got picked?! Forget this, I'm gonna go over to Linux/BSD  
> development!".
>
> Not worth it.
>
> Someone else had mentioned using code from ZFS instead. Just make  
> sure it doesn't have so many sleep() calls like the current code does  
> though. 

I think there are 30+ projects that are doing great stuff--and we'd just 
be highlighting one?

Treating the names as recognition award for outstanding participation 
and contribution could work, and it would encourage folks to get on next 
years' t-shirt!

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>
> -Moazam
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> On May 2, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Stephen Hahn wrote:
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>>   Whereas 20 lines of code won't make the other millions of inanimate
>>   statements feel left out, picking 50 people, by however fair a  
>> method,
>>   probably will make some of the other 12 000 wonder "why not me?".
>>
>>   -1 on people's names instead of code, at least for a community-wide
>>   event.
>>
>>   - Stephen
>>
>> * If you wanted to have awards, then I could see using award winners'
>>   names in the background field.
>>
>> -- 
>> Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
>> stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
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