On Apr 4, 2009, at 22:38, Peter Tribble wrote: > These are the open governance bugs in bugzilla. I've appended my > comments. > > 931 min P4 NEW OGB 2008/009 - Establish > regular reports > from Projects on their status > > I think we ought to pick this up and drive it forward. I would > expect some > sort of report from all collectives (projects, user groups, and > communities). > At least annually, if not quarterly.Operationally, we could tie it > in to the > newsletter, but it should be something that every collective should do > anyway and shouldn't be a huge bureaucratic effort. > > (Implementation suggestion: simply create a mailing list. Reports > may be > "The foo user group met 3 times in the last quarter", "The bar project > released a new version of the code", "The baz community group created > two new projects fred and joe". We want bullet points, not the > complete > works of Shakespeare.)
This idea followed the example of Apache, where each top-level project writes regular reports to the Board giving details of their progress since the last report. I agree with the level of detail you propose, and suggest that we create a reporting calendar so that there is a fresh project report every meeting. This report could then form the basis of the feature spots the website community produces. > > > 932 min P4 NEW OGB 2007/002 Community and Project > Reorganisation > > My own feeling is that this should be dropped. I don't want to see > the OGB > dictatiting the structure of the community. Rather, it should evolve > naturally. > (That's not to say that the OGB shouldn't guide and encourage > communities > and projects, and should point out where synergies and gaps exist that > individual collectives may have missed, but we shouldn't be telling > the > community how to fracture itself.) I think this one has actually been superseded by the new Constitution and should be dropped on that basis. Also the next one as well, as you say. > > > 933 min P4 NEW OGB 2007/003: Communities with < 3 Core > > Contributors > > We should wait for constitutional reform. > > 1383 nor P4 NEW set of mailing list issues > > Close. If there are individual issues then open new bugs, although > they > don't look like governance to me. > > 1920 min P4 NEW OGB Directive to change "leader" to > "editor" in > web app > > Hm. An OGB directive. Does the new infrastructure follow this > directive? > If so, there's no problem. > > 1937 maj P2 NEW OGB 2008/010 Simplifying the structure > of the > OpenSolaris Community > > I *think* that this is the new constitution. Given that it failed, we > should probably create a new bug to track future work. Although > John Plocher's comments follow 2007/002. Is there anything else > bundled in this that we need to track? This preceded work on the new Constitution and should be closed on the basis we will be reviewing and proposing a slightly modified version of that some time this year. > > > 2186 min P4 NEW Make some useful SQL queries available > for the > grants > > Is there any reason this is still open? > > 2246 min P4 NEW Create Emancipation Community Group > > What's the status here? As far as I can tell from the website > Emancipation > is still a project. Again, the distinction will not be relevant under the new Constitution so I suggest this one be closed as well. S.
