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We hope it will enable us to build a strong, great Linux distribution +that benefits users, upstream and adjacent projects. + +As well as working on/setting up the legal side, founding docs, the very first +pieces of infrastructure, meeting people, we have discussed and thought about +the governance model for the project. Here is the result. + +It is not a rigid structure and we are definitely open to comments and +adjustements as things go (hence the "draft"); but we do mean to start +with this schema for the first year. + +As stated in the announcement, this model has two targets: + + * ensure that the project direction & management is done by volunteer people + that are recognized by their peers as having valuable role and insight + into the project (no 3rd party take-over); + + * enable the project to learn and improve on itself. + + +Of course, that only won't prevent heated discussions, decisions to be taken +(and justified) or failure - all this construction will only work because of +reciprocal trust, goodwill and desire of all participants, plus a working schema +for discussion, decision and conflict resolution. + +To summarize, the whole project is organized in several groups: + + * Mageia project Teams (developers, packagers, docs, translators, designers, + etc. sponsored/mentored from the whole community), + + * Mageia project Community Council (people elected from each team), + + * Mageia association members (basically, founding association members & past + members of the council who can be on and elect the board), + + * Mageia project & association Board (direction of the project). + + +Because things are organized this way does not mean that there is a strict +hierarchical relationship between entities. This governance model is here +to coordinate the work of everyone and identify who is in charge of what. + +Here is the doc: <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=org">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=org</A> + + +Now, having read all this, beyond other discussion, here is a little point +about Teams, where actually everything starts; here are teams we have already +on the wiki: + * Packaging team + * Security team + * Developers team + * Documentation team + * Translation team + * QA team + * Triage team + * Users communities management and representation team; this one is pretty + big so it may need to organize into three dedicated groups: + * forums + * mailing-lists + * IRC + * local groups + * Web team + * Designers + * Marketing team + * Communication team + + +That makes for a lot of people; about 300 at this time if we count everyone +who enlisted. + +Now, this is practically a bit odd for a start, of course, since no team exist +formally yet. So we will go to freeze today's list of members of each team +and those will be the first round teams. + +Each team will have to decide on itself, for the next two weeks: + + * what is in the mentoring program exactly (for instance, Packaging team + has to take into account alternative packaging practices and explain + why/how it is expected to work in Mageia and how it could evolve); + + * how/who to sponsor (don't sponsor just a good friend, but someone who + can bring great things to your team and the project); + + * for their Council Representative, Team leader and Team backup; + + * for a list of ranked work topics to submit to the Council and Board + for the project and for the first distribution release (we will + announce Board's plans about that a bit later); these will be sorted + through for the long-term roadmap and will help to get a picture + of what we could do; see see <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoSCoW_Method">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoSCoW_Method</A> + for simple priorities; + + * propose/ask the tools they would need to explore/use to work collectively + (in- and cross-teams; see at the end of this post). + + +Ok... This is already a LOT of information. We may post more specific +discussion about: + * Community Council and Board roles, Board nomination and communication + channels (all lists are not active for now); + * Teams sponsoring/mentoring process, election and constitution process; + * tools; again, this is a per-team definition but we can certainly share + that; + * something else? + +Your input is welcome and PLEASE: + * quote the original message, + * use text-only, + * be specific in your answers. + +Cheers, + +Romain +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002132.html">[Mageia-discuss] Wish List +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002154.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia governance model draft +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2134">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2134">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2134">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2134">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |