[Gluster-devel] [FEEDBACK] Governance of GlusterFS project

[Amar Tumballi]

Avati,

Glad that such a discussion came up :-)

Few comments inline.


>
>   Here are some specific topics to seed the discussion:
>
> - Core team formation
>   - what are the qualifications for membership (e.g contributions of code,
> doc, packaging, support on irc/lists, how to quantify?)
>   - what are the responsibilities of the group (e.g direction of the
> project, project roadmap, infrastructure, membership)
>

 - Core team structure/membership/goal is most important of all, as most
probably the responsibility of the group will be having a bearing on all
the below bullet points.
 - One thing to consider is, do we have any limit on number of people @
core team ?
    -> If not, then we have a long term problem of once people get in, they
may loose focus, interest etc (mgmt issues)
    -> If yes, what is the number, and then how long is the membership
valid ? (6months? 1yr? 2yr?)


> - Roadmap
>   - process of proposing features
>   - process of selection of features for release
>
>
Good to start with some guidelines from other projects.


> - Release management
>   - timelines and frequency
>   - release themes
>   - life cycle and support for releases
>   - project management and tracking
>

Same here, would be good to follow other project to start with, and then
corrections as we see it.


>
> - Project maintainers
>   - qualification for membership
>   - process and evaluation
>
>
Again, same questions like core team membership applies here.
Considering we are talking about whole project maintainership here, one
criteria should be the depth of understanding about framework.
- In considering contributions, just the number of contribution (ie, patch
count etc) alone should not be the goal here, but the impact of the changes
on the project also should be a metric.

Regards,
Amar
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