<div dir="ltr">Avati,<div><br></div><div>Glad that such a discussion came up :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Few comments inline.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Here are some specific topics to seed the discussion:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Core team formation</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - what are the qualifications for membership (e.g contributions of code, doc, packaging, support on irc/lists, how to quantify?)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - what are the responsibilities of the group (e.g direction of the project, project roadmap, infrastructure, membership)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> - Core team structure/membership/goal is most important of all, as most probably the responsibility of the group will be having a bearing on all the below bullet points.</div>
<div> - One thing to consider is, do we have any limit on number of people @ core team ?</div><div> -> If not, then we have a long term problem of once people get in, they may loose focus, interest etc (mgmt issues)</div>
<div> -> If yes, what is the number, and then how long is the membership valid ? (6months? 1yr? 2yr?)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Roadmap</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - process of proposing features</div>
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- process of selection of features for release</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Good to start with some guidelines from other projects.</div><div>
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- Release management</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- timelines and frequency</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - release themes</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - life cycle and support for releases</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- project management and tracking</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Same here, would be good to follow other project to start with, and then corrections as we see it.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Project maintainers</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- qualification for membership</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - process and evaluation</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><div>Again, same questions like core team membership applies here. </div><div>Considering we are talking about whole project maintainership here, one criteria should be the depth of understanding about framework. </div>
<div>- In considering contributions, just the number of contribution (ie, patch count etc) alone should not be the goal here, but the impact of the changes on the project also should be a metric.</div><div><br></div><div>
Regards,</div><div>Amar</div></div></div></div></div>