On Dec 4, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:

> Governance Proposal
> =================
> 
> 1) xwiki.org is controlled by the XWiki committers. This means that  
> important changes brought to it should be discussed/vote on the list,  
> using the same practices as for code commits

+1

> 2) xwiki.org stays open in edit mode to all external contributors (and  
> XWiki committers continue to monitor it to remove spam, etc)

+1

> 3) we agree to start with 3 zones where companies can advertise their  
> commercial offers on top of the XWiki open source product:
> -- On the download page (for business packages, subscriptions, hosting)
> -- On the support page (for services: support, consulting)
> -- (still to be defined) Possibly on a "Products" tab in the new  
> horizontal navigation. The idea would be to do as jboss.org is doing.  
> Projects are open source and community and Products are commercial

+1
And I agree with Marius' remark about the fact that only products that are 
built on top of XWiki could be advertised

> 4) the company offerings are listed by their amount of contributions  
> to the XWiki open source project. The company that contributes most  
> (XWiki SAS today) gets the best spots (top of the list, bigger space)

+1
This however is tricky...
In order to define what "contribute most" means we need a metric, and that's 
not an easy thing to do.

Maybe we could use a linear combination of weights assigned to the priority an 
issue has and an index for its "perceived" difficulty (I saw people tagging 
issues with their difficulty when handling the backlog in a Scrum-oriented 
process). Maybe LOC-count could go into the mix (the less the better :)) And 
maybe also time should influence the result (company that had a punctual 
high-quality contribution should not be listed forever if it stops contributing)

The ranking is calculated wrt to this combination and a minimum threshold 
should be reached in order to be ranked.

I don't really know how to handle this, but if we propose a ranking we need 
also to propose a policy about how it is calculated.

> 5) Companies who want to be listed should provide some proof of their  
> contributions to the XWiki open source project

+1

> 6) XWiki SAS gets some acknowledgment for paying for the xwiki.org  
> server/maintenance of it. Probably somewhere in the footer of the site  
> or on side panel somewhere

+1

> 7) xwiki.org should always remain a site for the xwiki open source  
> community
> 
+1

-Fabio
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