“As some of you know, we have a role in our process called a
“Peer Reviewer”. This role is critical – it helps ensure that the
process is fair to both sponsor and developer, and also can help
ensure that what gets built is consistant with what the Open Source
community needs. We have also defined a new role: the “Spec
Writer”. In this role, you can help sponsors turn their high-level
objectives into actual “Request For Proposals” for the
sourceXchange site.”
“Both of these roles require us to provide some degree of
pre-validation – simply a check that the developer in these roles
has some experience with Open Source software development. The
developer doesn’t need to have been working on the Linux kernel
since 1991, or HTTP since 1989 – just long enough to probably know
what they’re doing when it comes to writing software and working
with this community.”