On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:56:12AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 06:30:24PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > The project has historically operated as a meritocratic > > consensus based community. Formally document what has > > always been an unwritten assumption amongst the community > > participants. Also include an explicit code of conduct > > to prempt any potential, but unlikely, future problems. > > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > docs/governance.html.in | 292 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 292 insertions(+) > > create mode 100644 docs/governance.html.in > > > > At FOSDEM this past weekend I was asked what the libvirt > > governance process was. While I believe our community > > members already understand all this, and it can be infered > > from behaviour on lists, it will help future new contributors > > to understand how we operate if we actually document it. > > This is likely to be particularly helpful for other companies > > wondering how to get involved in the libvirt project. > > > > diff --git a/docs/governance.html.in b/docs/governance.html.in > > new file mode 100644 > > index 0000000..8bc4e51 > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/docs/governance.html.in > [...] > > + <p> > > + Being a committer is a privilege, not a right. In exceptional > > + circumstances, the privilege may be removed from an active > > + contributor. Such decisions will be taken based on "rough > > + consensus" amongst other committers. In the event that a committer > > + is no longer able to participate in the project, after some period > > + of inactivity passes, they may be asked to confirm that they wish > > + to retain their rights as a committer. > > This will probably sound as a huge nit-picking, but using "rights as a > committer" at the end of the same paragraph which started "Being a > committer is a privilege, not a right." sounds a bit misleading to me. Yes, you are right. I've changed the phrase 'rights as a committer' to be 'role as a committer' Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list