[Commotion-dev] Commotion's Community Governance Guidelines

[Seamus Tuohy]

The governance guidelines are on the main site at
https://commotionwireless.net/docs/community-governance . I think that
building a mission and goals would be a boon to the project. I don't
know if one was developed before I entered the project. Does anyone know?

The governance page is on the footer and under documentation currently,
I will check to see if we can get it on the bug-page.


Seamus

On 12/06/2012 04:48 PM, Ben West wrote:
> I agree with Michael this is a great start.  Also, am I correct that the
> governance guidelines, mission, and goals are not yet on the wiki itself?
> 
> Besides adding more detail about mission and goals, I think this would be
> good publish on the wiki sooner than later, to help Commotion better
> identify itself (both to 'insiders' and 'outsiders') as a project based on
> participation.  Likewise, perhaps add a conspicuous link to the governance
> guidelines to the bug reporting form, in case a casual bug reporter would
> like to become more involved?
> 
> Presumably, these guidelines would also help establish the process one goes
> through in transitioning from 'outsider' to 'insider.'
> 
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Seamus Tuohy <s2e at opentechinstitute.org>wrote:
> 
>> Hello All,
>>
>> We have been working on the following draft of Commotion's Community
>> Governance Guidelines. The first is a proposal for the overarching
>> Commotion project guidelines. The second is a proposed individual
>> project guideline for code submission and review. Now that we have a
>> rough sketch of what we think we should include we would like to see
>> what the active community wants added, removed, reworded, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> Commotion Community Governance Guidelines
>>
>>   * The Commotion project is an open source, free software toolkit. The
>>     community welcomes all contributions and conversations that help the
>>     project grow and improve in accordance with its mission.
>>   * Commotion’s Mission and Goals are guided by the active developers
>>     and community stakeholders who contribute to the project community.
>>     Active developers of Commotion projects will guide the development
>>     of their individual project.
>>   * The Commotion project team encourages communities to customize the
>>     software to better meet local needs. We request that all
>>     customizations be contributed or communicated back to the Commotion
>>     community so that improvements can be reused without undue
>>     duplication of effort.
>>   * Work on Commotion should do no harm to existing projects. Projects
>>     that implement new code that breaks the existing functionality of
>>     other Commotion projects should work with the community of the
>>     existing project in order to provide support for the existing
>>     functions.
>>
>>   * New members may contribute to existing Commotion projects by
>>     collaborating with active developers. Each Commotion subproject will
>>     maintain an active version-controlled code repository. Guidelines
>>     for contribution will be managed by each project’s active
>>     developers, and will be posted on each project’s development page.
>>
>>
>> Commotion Project Governance Guidelines
>>
>> To contribute to the (___________) project’s code repository you must
>> post contributions to the development list for review. When the
>> community has reviewed them you will be asked to submit a request to
>> submit code so that the community can add your code to the project. At
>> the point when repository administrators believe that you have a strong
>> grasp of your contributed code’s effect on the rest of the code base,
>> and that your intentions are to further the goals of the project with
>> all of your contributions, you may be granted access to submit code
>> directly to the code base without review. Malicious or damaging code
>> that is submitted will cause those privileges to be revoked immediately.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Seamus 2e
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