[openstack-dev] [tc] Procedure for adding official projects

Zane Bitter zbitter at redhat.com
Mon Aug 25 21:12:22 UTC 2014


On 25/08/14 06:48, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Zane Bitter wrote:
>> Over the past couple of release cycles, the TC has put together a fairly
>> comprehensive checklist for projects entering into incubation with a
>> view to being included in the integrated release. However, I'm not aware
>> of anything equivalent for projects that are becoming official (i.e.
>> moving to the openstack/ namespace) but that are not targeting eventual
>> integration - or, indeed, that _are_ targeting eventual integration but
>> have not yet applied for incubation.
>>
>> The current procedure afaict is to submit a review to the governance
>> repo listing the repository under a particular program. It seems like at
>> a minimum we should be checking for basic due diligence stuff like "Is
>> it Apache licensed?", "Did everyone sign the CLA?" (may it diaf) and
>> "Are there any trademark issues?". And maybe there are other things the
>> TC should be looking at too.
>
> I agree... currently we only check that the program is fine with adding
> that new repository (by checking with the PTL :P) and that the project
> intent seems to fit in the program mission scope. Extra basic due
> diligence can't hurt, and we could turn that into a new requirements list.
>
> Would you be interested in proposing a basic "new projects in existing
> program requirements" list as a governance repo change ? Then we could
> iterate on it.

Sure :)

https://review.openstack.org/116727


- ZB



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