I also think this is a good sign that the relationship between
Communities and Projects is not well understood by all participants.
There are times it hasn't been at all clear to me, at least.
Perhaps getting an endorsing community needs to be a prerequisite to
setting up a project?
-- Garrett
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.
>
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