Re: oVirt comminuty voting

On 09/09/2011 04:09 PM, Perry Myers wrote: > On 09/09/2011 04:38 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> On 09/09/2011 03:03 PM, Carl Trieloff wrote: >>> On 09/09/2011 04:00 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>>> >>>> I'd prefer something like, communities with greater than 3 (or maybe >>>> 10?) maintainers can creator their own voting procedures. >>> >>> that is what apache does btw and is fine by me. the goal here is to >>> get >>> a broad maintainer set and help mew projects grow. once a project >>> has a >>> good culture, they can evolve it themselves. >> >> Okay, that sounds good. Perhaps we should try to work language like >> this into more of these docs? Basically, three tiers of projects: >> >> Tier 0; x< 3 maintainers, oVirt board has ability to make decisions >> on behalf of the project. >> >> Tier 1; 3<= x< 10 maintainers, project is autonomous, but must use >> oVirt recommended voting procedures and maintainership model. >> >> Tier 2; x>= 10 maintainers, project is autonomous and writes its own >> governance document. Perhaps the document should be voted on by the >> oVirt board? >> >> I think that creates a nice incubator model where oVirt helps a project >> grow and gets out of the way once it reaches critical mass. >> >> Can anyone give me an idea of where the initial set of seed projects >> will fit? How many maintainers is oVirt Server likely to have? (I >> assume that's the biggest of the seed projects).

> > Do we define a maintainer as anyone with commit access to the main > upstream repo? >

> If so, oVirt Node project has 3 maintainers presently (not counting > myself, and I don't since I don't code anymore...) I think anyone with commit access who can commit other people's patches? I think that fits the categories quite well too. ovirt-node is large enough that it should be autonomous. I think the overall goal is to make sure that projects move from Tier 0 -> Tier 1 over time but once at Tier 1, I'm sure certain projects can last forever at that size. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Perry