16 Mar
2010
16 Mar
'10
11:11 a.m.
On 03/16/2010 10:51 AM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Vincent Massol<vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Well, it is a little bit more clear in the Committership page:
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Community/Committership :
- becoming a committer once "enough" good patches are applied
- becoming emeritus if a whole year passes without a commit
Hi everyone,
I'd like to move this topic forward. Thus I've now created a draft of the
XWiki.org Governance that gathers what I had proposed at
http://markmail.org/message/fxqvprtbb5vyog6g
The Governance page is currently at:
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/Governance
Sounds good overall. As one could expect, the 2 gray areas to me are:
"The notion of active is currently left to the appreciation of the XWiki
Committers." and
"Right now the definition of contribution level is not strictly defined"
I would be ok to go ahead without those 2 specified more closely but I'd be
in favor of defining at least a loose metric or some indicators that would
be publicly displayed somewhere so that anyone could come and see for
himself, "this is where most commits come from". Some kind of public
dashboard maybe, similar to the one we have at:
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ProjectHealth
but updated in real time with the names of the committers& their number of
commits - if that's doable of course.
This would be really easy to do with JGit reading a Git clone of our SVN
repo + charting macro.
WDYT?
Guillaume
> Please review it and vote. The idea is then to move it to
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance in a few days.
"or with a "Products" tab in some top level horizontal navigation"
=> I
don't quite like it. How many products do we have? IMO, not many enough
to require a top level entry. But I agree with the Download page.
"we require that the company/individual have at least one active
Committer" => How about companies that invest a lot of money in *our*
developers, sponsoring important, major features, like the Office
importer, or the social dashboard? Or is the Supporters page enough for
them?
"The notion of active is currently left to the appreciation of the XWiki
Committers." => Why does a company have to be active continuously?
I would like to see stated somewhere (not necessarily on this page) that
most committers are from XWiki SAS not because XWiki SAS pushes its
employees as committers, but the other way around, because XWiki SAS
wants to sustain the best contributors by offering them a job, so it
pulls employees from the committers (or promising contributors, future
committers).
> As usual, non committers don't have binding
votes but are still very much
> encouraged to give their opinions. Their voice is especially more important
> on this topic since most committers are from XWiki SAS and thus I feel we
> need at least a general agreement from the community at large before doing
> anything.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/