[ogb-discuss] Project creation guidelines (was: OGB Meeting Minutes :: 11/04/07)

[Eric Boutilier]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Stephen Lau wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:16:38PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote:
>>> ...
>>> 2) Project creation guidelines
>>>
>>>  Keith proposed the board should tackle the project creation process.
>>>  Steve
>>>  like the fact that there was a relatively low barrier to creation...
>>
>>
>> It might be worth considering some kind of specific way to accommodate the
>> "Howard Roarks" of the coding world, e.g. lone-wolf programmers. Maybe this
>> could be a tradeoff kind of setup. They get to use opensolaris.org space,
>> tools, etc., but they don't get all the rights that fully endorsed projects
>> get (which they probably wouldn't care much about anyway).
>
> Projects don't really get much in the way of 'rights' other than space,
> tools, SCM hosting, etc.  all the 'rights' in terms of representation,
> governance, etc. is reserved for communities.

OK, I stand corrected on how the tradeoff might work. 
But that's actually beside the point...

Eric