[opensolaris-summit] My comments (very subjective) on proposed Summit topics

[Darren Reed]

Philip Brown wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:57:40PM -0700, Darren Reed wrote:
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>>Philip Brown wrote:
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>>>Isnt that what the (previously named?) "CAB" is for?
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>>How would that be different to the OGB?  No open board-discuss
>>for starters.  Have it function like a real board: meet monthly or
>>quarterly, publish the minutes of the meetings, appoint a chairman,
>>give the board power to make decisions that change opensolaris
>>without needing votes, etc...
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>The one trouble with doing stuff politically like that, is that there is
>then a tendancy for those positions to be filled with politicians.
>There need to be rules, but not to the point of needing a 
>"full time politician" to handle it, so to speak.
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To which I'd say that the board must be comprised of only those
who commit or make changes to the source code of opensolaris,
not those that are only involved in the ARC, website, etc.  That
there are few "code cutters" that are "politicians" tends to solve
the "politician" problem (or at least this is my observation.)

Open source projects are fundamentally about code, everything
else is just window dressing.  The right to be taken seriously
should be inline with the contribution to the source code base.

Darren