Bertrand, This insight you shared is useful.
>That diversity is generally defined by having PMC members affiliated with at least 3 different entities, which do not have to be companies - people from two companies along with a few independents is fine. This is good news then we are in good shape with the current entities and a few independent developers we have in place today, so this issue I consider resolved as minimum bar for graduation. Yes I agree and we need to be better on async comm. on dev list. I saw your other thread and your good suggestions. -cs On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 10:20 AM Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Carlos Santana <[email protected]> > wrote: > > ...I think the company is referring to that to my understanding is that > the > > project to graduate should have at least 3 companies sponsoring the > > project... > > It's not exactly that. To graduate, a project must have "sufficient > diversity" so that it's not overly dependent on a single entity which > might lose interest and cause the project to stop. > > That diversity is generally defined by having PMC members affiliated > with at least 3 different entities, which do not have to be companies > - people from two companies along with a few independents is fine. > > What's most important is for all things to happen in the open, "if it > didn't happen on the dev list it didn't happen" so that anyone can > participate in decisions. My other thread about asynchronous > communications is related - it must be easy to collaborate with the > project even if one isn't working 100% on it. > > -Bertrand >
