Lars Kurth
2012-May-11 16:13 UTC
[Vote] Minor additions and clarification to Xen Project Governance
Hi, dear was no controversial feedback on the proposal to change http://xen.org/projects/governance.html The proposal can be viewed at: http://xen.org/projects/governance_v1_2.html Community Manager, Maintainers, Committers and Project leads of mature projects can vote according to http://xen.org/projects/governance.html). Voting works as follows: +1: for proposal 0: abstain -1: against proposal - must contain an alternative suggestion to the proposal or an explanation to be valid The vote is open until May 18th (for 1 week). Regards Lars On 03/05/2012 09:30, Lars Kurth wrote:> Dear Developers, > > we have had the original Xen project governance document (see > http://xen.org/projects/governance.html > <http://www.xen.org/projects/governance.html>) in effect now since > July last year. The last minor review was in October 2011. > > Since then I had feedback on two items: > > a) Our governance does not specify how friction in the community is > resolved. The role definitions cover the concept of Committers and > Project leads acting as Referees, without being specific. In essence, > the proposal reflects what happens informally in practice today and > has happened in the past. > > b) There also was a bug in the definition of Project Lead: "Xen.org > projects are managed by a Project Lead, who also is a maintainer" > should be "..., who also is a committer". I clarified this and added a > sentence that a project lead can also act as referee (which was > implied before as a project lead is a committer). > > Please find a proposal for a new revision of the process at > http://xen.org/projects/governance_v1_2.html which fixes these two > issues. Changes are marked in italics and are in sections "Conflict > Resolution" and "Project Lead". > > Timetable: > > 1) Open review with feedback until 11th May (a bit more than a week > from today) > > 2) Lars to incorporate any feedback and publish a revision. > > 3) Lars to set up a private poll via a form, the week of May 14th > which will be open for a week. Community members that can vote are > maintainers (including committers and maintainers)of any mature > project in Xen (aka Xen and XCP). > > Best Regards > Lars >_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel