On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:56:12AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 06:30:24PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
The project has historically operated as a meritocratic consensus based community. Formally document what has always been an unwritten assumption amongst the community participants. Also include an explicit code of conduct to prempt any potential, but unlikely, future problems.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> --- docs/governance.html.in | 292 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 292 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/governance.html.in
At FOSDEM this past weekend I was asked what the libvirt governance process was. While I believe our community members already understand all this, and it can be infered from behaviour on lists, it will help future new contributors to understand how we operate if we actually document it. This is likely to be particularly helpful for other companies wondering how to get involved in the libvirt project.
diff --git a/docs/governance.html.in b/docs/governance.html.in new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8bc4e51 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/governance.html.in [...] + <p> + Being a committer is a privilege, not a right. In exceptional + circumstances, the privilege may be removed from an active + contributor. Such decisions will be taken based on "rough + consensus" amongst other committers. In the event that a committer + is no longer able to participate in the project, after some period + of inactivity passes, they may be asked to confirm that they wish + to retain their rights as a committer.
This will probably sound as a huge nit-picking, but using "rights as a committer" at the end of the same paragraph which started "Being a committer is a privilege, not a right." sounds a bit misleading to me.
Yes, you are right. I've changed the phrase 'rights as a committer' to be 'role as a committer' Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|