OpenSolaris

OGB Policies, Guidance, and Best Practices

In accordance with the OpenSolaris Constitution, from time to time the OGB approves policies and issues guidance and recommendations to Community Groups.  Those documents are collected here and are the official reference copies. 

Approved Policies

• OGB 2007/001 Project Instantiation Policy Approved on April 25th, 2007
• OGB 2008/002 OGB Policy pertaining to the Constitution Approved on April 2nd, 2008
• OGB 2008/003 Enabling email-based decision making Approved on April 2nd, 2008
• OGB 2008/006 Proposal on the use of the OGB-Discuss alias Approved April 7th, 2008
• OGB 2008/008 Proposal on Website Community and Web Editorial Board Approved April 7th, 2008
• OGB 2009/002 Policy on Private OGB Discussions Approved April 16th 2009
• OGB 2009/001 Statement of the OGB attitude and approach to governance and leadership Approved on April 23, 2009
• OGB 2009/007 OGB Policy Regarding Core Contributor Grants Approved on April 30, 2009
• OGB 2009/003 Proposal on Regular Meetings of the OGB Approved on April 30, 2009
• OGB 2009/008 Policy on Core Contributor Grant Renewals Approved on July 23, 2009

Potential future policies or procedures under discussion

• OGB 2009/004 OGB Policy pertaining to the Constitution
• OGB 2009/005 OGB's Leadership and Communications roles
• OGB 2009/006 Policy on regular reporting

Retired or superseded policies or procedures

• OGB 2007/002 Proposal on Community and Project Reorganisation never approved
• OGB 2007/003 Proposal on Communities with < 3 Core Contributors never approved
• OGB 2008/007 Proposal on the use of the OGB-Private alias superseded by 2009/002
• OGB 2008/004 Proposal on the logistics of Regular meetings of the OGB superseded by
  2009/03
• OGB 2008/005 Proposal on OGB activity/issue naming, tracking and archival superseded by 2009/03

The OGB no longer uses Bugzilla to track issues, but if there are any the link to get them is here: BugZilla OGB issues