oVirt comminuty voting

[Ayal Baron]

Looks good.
Could use some editing (lots of small things like s/rewording/rewarding/, s/wsdm/vdsm/)

----- Original Message -----
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: project-planning-bounces at ovirt.org
> [mailto:project-planning-bounces at ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Anthony
> > Liguori
> > Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 23:39 PM
> > To: cctrieloff at redhat.com
> > Cc: project-planning at ovirt.org
> > Subject: Re: oVirt comminuty voting
> >
> > 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).
> 
> I think the comment on a 'leader' and the need for a tie breaker is
> valid
> for projects with less than 10 maintainers as well.
> This is also relevant for overruling a nack to avoid stagnation. A
> majority of acks, or leader as tie breaker should be able to vote on
> overruling a nack.
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