Hi All, The charter is due this Friday, November 15. We have two comments from Jens on this draft, one for suggesting a voting timeframe of within a week of an official proposal, the other for possibly using trac for voting. I'm fine with the timeframe, and I don't care either way on trac or what I have in the draft below. Please review and either approve or make suggested changes. josh On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > Here's the second draft of the charter. I think I captured most of > the discussion to date, but there's always a chance I missed > something. Please read this over and provide any feedback you have. > Please pay particular attention to the (NOTE:) items. > > Thanks. > > josh > > == Fedora Workstation WG Governance == > > This document describes the governing structure for the Fedora > Workstation Work Group. > > === Membership === > > The Fedora Workstation Work Group has nine voting members, with one > member selected by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee as the > liaison to FESCo. > > The FESCo liaison is always a member of the decision making group for > the Work Group. The liaison is responsible for presenting the WG > decisions and summary of WG discussions to FESCo on a regular basis. > They will also take feedback or requirements from FESCo back to the > WG. The liaison is not required to be a FESCo member, but should be > able to regularly attend the FESCo meetings. > > Members of the Work Group are chosen by the Work Group as seats become > available. In the event that a current member relinquishes their > seat, the Work Group will fill the seat by selecting a candidate and > approving by majority consensus. Eligible candidates must be in the > FPCA+1 group. The Work Group is highly encouraged to seek out > candidates that have been showing persistent and high quality > contribution to the Workstation product. > > (NOTE: I believe this is a decent encapsulation of the discussion > we've had thus far. I've omitted term limits for now, but I'm open to > suggestions. The FPCA+1 requirement seems reasonable to me as we want > to make sure they're a Fedora contributor first and foremost. > Suggestions/questions welcome.) > > === Current Members === > > * Josh Boyer (FESCo Liaison) (jwb) > * Matthias Clasen (mclasen) > * Kalev Lember (kalev) > * Ryan Lerch (ryanlerch) > * Jens Petersen (juhp) > * Christian Schaller (cschalle) > * Owen Taylor (otaylor) > * Lukáš Tinkl (ltinkl) > * Christoph Wickert (cwickert) > > === Making Decisions === > > Because Fedora is a global project, members of the working group may > be distributed across multiple timezones. It may be possible to have a > real-time IRC meetings, but in general we will conduct business on > the mailing list. > > Many of our decisions can be made through "lazy consensus";. Under > this model, an intended action is announced on the mailing list, > discussed, and in the absence of a group of dissenting contributors > within a few days, simply done. > > For bigger issues, where there may be disagreement, or where there is > long-term impact, or where an action may not easily be undone, we > will put forth a formal proposal on the mailing list with a > "[Proposal for Vote] header in the email Subject: field. Working > group members can vote +1 to approve, -1 to disagree, or 0 to abstain; > five +1 votes are necessary for a measure to pass. Non-members may > comment on the item and (of course) discuss on the mailing list, but > are asked to refrain from putting votes on official proposal threads. > > In the event that a live meeting is held in IRC to discuss an issue, > proposals will be done in much the same way. A member will put forth > an official proposal by prefixing a summary of such with "Proposal:" > and WG members will vote as above. Results will be recorded and > posted in any meeting minutes. > > (NOTE: I chose option #2 from the previous draft for now. If you'd > like to see something different, please speak up. I don't believe > anyone commented on this section specifically.) > > === Changing these Rules === > > This document will be approved by consensus of the initial Working > Group members and approved by FESCo. After initial ratification, any > substantive changes can be approved by majority vote and sent to FESCo > for acceptance. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
