On 03/16/2010 10:51 AM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Vincent Massol<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'd like to move this topic forward. Thus I've now created a draft of the >> XWiki.org Governance that gathers what I had proposed at >> http://markmail.org/message/fxqvprtbb5vyog6g >> >> The Governance page is currently at: >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/Governance >> > > Sounds good overall. As one could expect, the 2 gray areas to me are: > > "The notion of active is currently left to the appreciation of the XWiki > Committers."
Well, it is a little bit more clear in the Committership page: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Community/Committership : - becoming a committer once "enough" good patches are applied - becoming emeritus if a whole year passes without a commit > and > "Right now the definition of contribution level is not strictly defined" > > I would be ok to go ahead without those 2 specified more closely but I'd be > in favor of defining at least a loose metric or some indicators that would > be publicly displayed somewhere so that anyone could come and see for > himself, "this is where most commits come from". Some kind of public > dashboard maybe, similar to the one we have at: > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ProjectHealth > but updated in real time with the names of the committers& their number of > commits - if that's doable of course. This would be really easy to do with JGit reading a Git clone of our SVN repo + charting macro. > WDYT? > > Guillaume > > >> Please review it and vote. The idea is then to move it to >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance in a few days. "or with a "Products" tab in some top level horizontal navigation" => I don't quite like it. How many products do we have? IMO, not many enough to require a top level entry. But I agree with the Download page. "we require that the company/individual have at least one active Committer" => How about companies that invest a lot of money in *our* developers, sponsoring important, major features, like the Office importer, or the social dashboard? Or is the Supporters page enough for them? "The notion of active is currently left to the appreciation of the XWiki Committers." => Why does a company have to be active continuously? I would like to see stated somewhere (not necessarily on this page) that most committers are from XWiki SAS not because XWiki SAS pushes its employees as committers, but the other way around, because XWiki SAS wants to sustain the best contributors by offering them a job, so it pulls employees from the committers (or promising contributors, future committers). >> As usual, non committers don't have binding votes but are still very much >> encouraged to give their opinions. Their voice is especially more important >> on this topic since most committers are from XWiki SAS and thus I feel we >> need at least a general agreement from the community at large before doing >> anything. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
