On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:25:28AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> >>reality. Similarly, is your qemu project affiliated with any
> >>community? If so, ask the leaders of that community why you weren't
> >>included.)
> >
> >Exactly - that's the right place to start, not with the OGB and not
> >with the process itself. If the Community leaders are unresponsive or
> >don't appear to have any sound rationale for denying endorsement,
> >escalation to the OGB may be appropriate. The OGB should never force
> >a Community to endorse a Project; presumably the Communities are the
> >repository of technical knowledge and leadership and are expected to
> >make value judgments about the viability and desirability of ongoing
> >work. But denying endorsement by failing to maintain awareness of
> >relevant projects, because of personality conflicts, or for other
> >reasons not related to a project's technical merit is a problem well
> >within the OGB's mandate to address.
> >
> >Suffice it to say that dealing with Community failure is one of the
> >deeper challenges facing the new OGB. Community leaders are advised
> >to put their houses in order sooner rather than later, and to seek
> >dissolution if adequate leadership cannot be found or a sensible
> >definition of scope cannot be agreed upon.
>
> In this case, I think it's still a follow-on of the poor initial setup
> of Communities - instead of a Xen community, we should have a Virtualization
> community with Xen & qemu projects.
I can't bring myself to utter "+1" -- a response that I put in the same
mental bin as "please remove me from this alias" -- but I agree with
Alan's sentiment...
- Bryan
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