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I think Joe's idea pretty sums it up, ASF model is definitely worth
following (Mesos is awesome). Non layer #1 projects will still be
shepherded but not that closely coupled to make OpenStack over-bloated.
Incubation projects can't be just dropped.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 23, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
>>
>> > If we are no longer incubating *programs*, which are the teams of
>> people who we would like to ensure are involved in OpenStack governance,
>> then how do we make that decision? From a practical standpoint, how do we
>> make a list of eligible voters for a TC election? Today we pull a list of
>> committers from the git history from the projects associated with “official
>> programs", but if we are dropping “official programs” we need some other
>> way to build the list.
>>
>> Joe Gordon mentioned an interesting idea to address this (which I am
>> probably totally butchering), which is that we make incubation more similar
>> to the ASF Incubator. In other words make it more lightweight with no
>> promise of governance or infrastructure support.
>>
>
> you only slightly butchered it :). From what I gather the Apache Software
> Foundation primary goals are to:
>
> "
> * provide a foundation for open, collaborative software development
> projects by supplying hardware, communication, and business infrastructure
> * create an independent legal entity to which companies and individuals
> can donate resources and be assured that those resources will be used for
> the public benefit
> * provide a means for individual volunteers to be sheltered from legal
> suits directed at the Foundation's projects
> * protect the 'Apache' brand, as applied to its software products, from
> being abused by other organizations
> "[0]
>
> This roughly translates into: JIRA, SVN, Bugzilla and Confluence etc.
> for infrastructure resources. So ASF provides infrastructure, legal
> support, a trademark and some basic oversight.
>
>
> "The [Apache] incubator is responsible for:
> * filtering the proposals about the creation of a new project or
> sub-project
> * help the creation of the project and the infrastructure that it needs to
> operate
> * supervise and mentor the incubated community in order for them to reach
> an open meritocratic environment
> * evaluate the maturity of the incubated project, either promoting it to
> official project/ sub-project status or by retiring it, in case of failure.
>
> It must be noted that the incubator (just like the board) does not perform
> filtering on the basis of technical issues. This is because the foundation
> respects and suggests variety of technical approaches. It doesn't fear
> innovation or even internal confrontation between projects which overlap in
> functionality." [1]
>
> So my idea, which is very similar to Monty's, is to make move all the
> non-layer 1 projects into something closer to an ASF model where there is
> still incubation and graduation. But the only things a project receives out
> of this process is:
>
> * Legal support
> * A trademark
> * Mentorship
> * Infrastructure to use
> * Basic oversight via the incubation/graduation process with respect to
> the health of the community.
>
> They do not get:
>
> * Required co-gating or integration with any other projects
> * People to right there docs for them, etc.
> * Technical review/oversight
> * Technical requirements
> * Evaluation on how the project fits into a bigger picture
> * Language requirements
> * etc.
>
> Note: this is just an idea, not a fully formed proposal
>
> [0] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#what
> [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#incubator
>
>
>>
>> It is also interesting to consider that we may not need much governance
>> for things outside of layer1. Of course, this may be dancing around the
>> actual problem to some extent, because there are a bunch of projects that
>> are not layer1 that are already a part of the community, and we need a
>> solution that includes them somehow.
>>
>> Vish
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