oVirt comminuty voting

[Anthony Liguori]

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