Below is an outline of the reorg for today's community call.
I can't make the call because it comes at the tail end of my 22 hour
Tuesday and it would extend the day to 26 hours with only about 3 hours
of sleep. Can't do it. So, if someone on the OGB could brief the
community on our reorg/simplification progress that would be great.
Please feel free to correct anything I have wrong. Thanks.
Background:
The OpenSolaris community has asked the OGB to simplify governance
so operations can move faster and better reflect how work gets
done. At the OpenSolaris Summit in May the OGB made a commitment to
begin this process. The timing for a reorganization is good since the
OpenSolaris Infrastructure Engineering Team has also been building new
functionality into the OpenSolaris website platform that will support a
more flexible community organization and fix some well-known site
issues.
The new website platform will be rolled out in stages over the coming
months, so this is a good opportunity to also address governance
issues as well.
Approved Proposals:
The OGB has approved a new group creation process, a new membership
process, and new roles & groups organization for the community:
PLEASE NOTE: These documents are not live yet and may need
some additional work. Also, we may need to consider other issues in the
reorg and simplification process as the infrastructure is implemented.
The next stage of the reorg process will
involve discussions around implementing these plans, updating the
Constitution to reflect the changes, documenting anything else that
is necessary, and synchronizing all of this with the OpenSolaris
Infrastructure Engineering Team's platform
development plans.
References:
Jim
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