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On 18/12/13 11:40 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>The TC meeting yesterday uncovered an interesting question which, so
>far, divided TC members.
>
>We require that projects have a number of different developers involved
>before they apply for incubation, mostly to raise the bus factor. But we
>also currently require some level of diversity in that development team:
>we tend to reject projects where all the development team comes from a
>single company.
>
>There are various reasons for that: we want to make sure the project
>survives the loss of interest of its main corporate sponsor, we want to
>make sure it takes into account more than just one company's use case,
>and we want to make sure there is convergence, collaboration and open
>development at play there, before we start spending common resources in
>helping them integrate with the rest of OpenStack.
>
>That said, it creates a chicken-and-egg issue: other companies are less
>likely to assign resources and converge to a project unless it gets
>blessed as THE future solution. And it's true that in the past a lot of
>projects really ramped up their communities AFTER being incubated.
>
>I guess there are 3 options:
>
>1. Require diversity for incubation, but find ways to bless or recommend
>projects pre-incubation so that this diversity can actually be achieved
>
>2. Do not require diversity for incubation, but require it for
>graduation, and remove projects from incubation if they fail to attract
>a diverse community
>
>3. Do not require diversity at incubation time, but at least judge the
>interest of other companies: are they signed up to join in the future ?
>Be ready to drop the project from incubation if that was a fake support
>and the project fails to attract a diverse community


My vote goes for #3

>
>Personally I'm leaning towards (3) at the moment. Thoughts ?
>
>-- 
>Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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