[Xen-devel] [Proposal] Minor additions and clarification to Xen Project Governance

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx>]

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


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