Dear Developers,
we have had the original Xen project governance document (see
http://xen.org/projects/governance.html
<http://www.xen.org/projects/governance.html>)
in effect now since July last year. The last minor review was
in October 2011.
Since then I had feedback on two items:
a) Our governance does not specify how friction in the
community is resolved. The role definitions cover the concept
of Committers and Project leads acting as Referees, without
being specific. In essence, the proposal reflects what happens
informally in practice today and has happened in the past.
b) There also was a bug in the definition of Project Lead:
"Xen.org projects are managed by a Project Lead, who also is a
maintainer" should be "..., who also is a committer". I
clarified this and added a sentence that a project lead can
also act as referee (which was implied before as a project
lead is a committer).
Please find a proposal for a new revision of the process at
http://xen.org/projects/governance_v1_2.html
which fixes these two issues. Changes are marked in italics
and are in sections "Conflict Resolution" and "Project Lead".
Timetable:
1) Open review with feedback until 11th May (a bit more than a
week from today)
2) Lars to incorporate any feedback and publish a revision.
3) Lars to set up a private poll via a form, the week of May
14th which will be open for a week. Community members that can
vote are maintainers (including committers and maintainers)of
any mature project in Xen (aka Xen and XCP).
Best Regards
Lars