FAQ: Website Transition: User Actions
This FAQ originally contained information about user actions that were changing due to the website work related to the 2009 website transition.
Now that the transition is complete, a Site User Guide has been created that contains most of the information that was originally here.
Information about the website transition is in the Website Community Group, and there was an opensolaris.org Website Transition FAQ available as well.
NOTE: If you have questions about how your content looks on XWiki after the final content migration, please check the 'POST-MIGRATION' section of the content preparation page.
- Roles & Collectives
- What is a collective?
- Why are we using the term 'collective'?
- How many collectives are there and what are they?
- Where does information about my collective relationships (i.e., my roles) appear on the website?
- How do I learn about roles and associated privileges and how to obtain a particular role?
- How is role information used across the site?
- Account Management
- Source Code Repository Management
- Governance Roles & Privileges
- Administrative Actions available to Collective Leaders
Roles & Collectives
What is a collective?
Collective is the name we use to describe spaces on opensolaris.org that have groups of people organized to do something. There are three collective types built into the website: Community Groups, Projects, and User Groups. Community Groups are generally large groups of people who get together to discuss technology areas and who sponsor development Projects. Projects are smaller groups of people who need direct access to source repositories to get work done. And User Groups are geographically-based groups of people meeting locally and evangelizing about OpenSolaris around the world.
Why are we using the term 'collective'?
We chose the term collective because we needed a generic term for the bodies of people within the overall OpenSolaris community that was not already in use or overloaded (such as Community Group or 'group').
How many collectives are there and what are they?
There are three types of collectives:
- Community Group: Defined in the OpenSolaris Constitution. See the Communities page for a description of Community Groups, instructions about how to request a new one, and a list of the current Community Groups on the site.
- Project: Mentioned in the OpenSolaris Constitution. See the Projects page for a description of Projects, instructions about how to request and set up a new one, and a list of the current Projects on the site.
- User Group: Not mentioned in the OpenSolaris Constitution. Information about User Groups can be found in the Advocacy Community Group.
NOTE: Within the database, there is also an entity called an Electorate (i.e., the OpenSolaris Electorate). Within that entity, governance data (currently people with voting privileges, grant data for Community Group Contributors and Community Group Core Contributors, and Community Group Facilitators) is stored for each Community Group Electorate.
Where does information about my collective relationships (i.e., my roles) appear on the website?
Your user account in the Auth application contains information about the collectives with which you are associated. Click on 'Collectives' in the Menu list on the left side of the page. The page that displays will show the roles you have in collectives on the site.
How do I learn about roles and associated privileges and how to obtain a particular role?
See the Roles & Collectives document for information about roles and associated privileges.
See the Site User Guide for information about how to obtain a particular role and manage your collective relationships.
How is role information used across the site?
Applications running on the site will assign privileges to roles within a collective. For example, the SCM application gives Project Leaders commit privileges to all of the Project's source code repositories and allows a Project Leader to grant commit privileges to one or more of the Project's source code repositories to a Project Developer.
Account Management
See the Site User Guide for information about account management.
Do I have to provide my Contributor Agreement number or Sun employee information?
Re: Contributor Agreement numbers: no, that information is added to the database by a site administrator.
Re: Sun employee information: yes, this information is required if you will want to commit to source code repositories on the site or to internal consolidations that use this information (e.g., the ON source repository).
How is my Contributor Agreement number entered if I file one after registering on the site?
If you file a Contributor Agreement after August 3, the number assigned will be added to the database by a site administrator.
What do I do if I think I have a Contributor Agreement on file but the number is not listed in my account detail?
Send email to website-admin AT opensolaris DOT org and provide your full name as noted on the Contributor Agreement, when you filed the agreement, and what number you were assigned.
Source Code Repository Management
See the Site User Guide for information about how to create and manage source code repositories on the site.
Governance Roles & Privileges
See the Site User Guide for information about how to vote and how to become a Contributor or Core Contributor in a Community Group.
How do know if I can vote?
Log in to your user account in the Auth application, click on Edit your Account, and then click on Collectives. You will then see a list of collectives in which you belong. You need to be a Core Contributor in at least on Community Group Electorate to vote in a community-wide election.
Administrative Actions available to Collective Leaders
See the Site User Guide for information about administrative actions available to collective Leaders.
