The election results are finally here. I am, yet again, the bridesmaid, first runner up (second runner up last time, first runner up before that). Your new board is:
- John Beck,
- Alan Coopersmith,
- Glynn Foster,
- Jim Grisanzio,
- Stephen Lau,
- Simon Phipps, and
- John Plocher.
You’ll notice that with the exception of Stephen Lau who recently left Sun for Songbird (which many people don’t seem to yet realize) this is an all Sun board. This is, imho, a non-optimal solution.
Both of the amendments passed… I’m saddened by this.
All in all, however, I’m not surprised or bothered by the result. In fact, I’m glad that I’ll get to spend the next year working on code and projects and not banging my head against a brick wall. The fact that Simon and John P. are on the board will ensure that things move more quickly because of their internal clout, which is apparently the only way to get things done. We should see more results this time around as a result…. but I wish thats not what it took.
I have a great deal of things to do and contribute, and so hopefully now I’ll have more time to focus on those things which, I think, ultimately, will be of greater benefit to OpenSolaris than worrying about governance. Besides, I do more good on a daily basis for OpenSolaris at Joyent than we ever have in governance.
This is a really good team. Congratulations guys
Regarding your assessment that the almost-all-Sun elected board is a “non-optimal solution”, I whole-heartedly believe the exact opposite is true since these elected folks have been actively engaged in the OpenSolaris community for a long time, and are well-respected inside and outside of Sun which might allow them to have influence during this rather precarious era of moving from “ClosedSolaris” to OpenSolaris.
There are still a multitude of decisions that must be made within Sun which could probably *never* be made by an all-NON-Sun board, no matter how well-respected they might be within the OpenSolaris community.
During this era of moving from closed to open, I believe it is absolutely critical that people within Sun, exercise their greater ability to influence decisions in favor of the OpenSolaris community. So I openly fling my unreserved trust in the general direction of the current OGB to do so.
Anything less than this trust is a complete lack of patience and a total disregard for the magnitude of the problem of moving millions of lines of code and scores of internal projects all using different SCM’s and decades of closed internal practices to a happy set of folks outside of Sun, all using one SCM, all contributing code that doesn’t break or even slowdown Sun’s development of the commercial Solaris (or other projects which are now open).
Real business needs do exist and we must acknowledge them and have patience.
We will contribute autonomously and directly as trusted members of the OpenSolaris community in good time.
The code is out, the practices will follow a little bit at a time, and it will be good. For Sun and OpenSolaris.
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I don’t believe that having a all-NON-Sun board is what Ben was getting at. Ben was referring to the complete lack of a single non-Sun or non-Sun-alum being voted in. Yes, Steve Lau doesn’t have a purple badge anymore, but that has been true for only a few months now.
Regardless of the reasons, the end effect is zero community representation on the board. This is a regression from makeup of the original CAB, even. With being on the cusp of year THREE of the official existence of OS.org, this worrisome. The “open source teething problems” excuses for things being slow to communitize is becoming a less and less plausible excuse.
I have to agree that the board would benefit from one or more members from the non-Sun community. When everyone has the same income source it tends to bias the thinking and limit the source of ideas that are put into the dialogue.
It would be nice to see the governance documents amended to enforce a specific number of “Open” members and a split slate for voting as a result.
The most important measure for OpenSolaris success is adoption rate: in my opinion. Quality will track as a by-product of that fundamental success measure. “More eyes on the code” and “More people who care about the status of the code”.
Sun moves like it will be secure in the market forever. There are few metrics that support that base assumption.
I’m sorry you didn’t make the cut. You represent a point of view that would likely get you “riff’ed” if you had a Sun badge. You know where the OpenSolaris “pain points” are… from real world pain. The rest of the board doesn’t have such experience.
Users need a voice n the Board.
Ben didn’t get on the board? The results must of been tampered with..
Good words.
During this era of moving from closed to open, I believe it is absolutely critical that people within Sun, exercise their greater ability to influence decisions in favor of the OpenSolaris community.
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