[ogb-discuss] Open governance bugs

[Valerie Bubb Fenwick]

Hi Peter -

Thanks for going through these!

On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Peter Tribble wrote:

> These are the open governance bugs in bugzilla. I've appended my comments.
>
> 931    	min  	P4  	NEW  	  	OGB 2008/009 - Establish regular reports
> from Projects on their status
>
> I think we ought to pick this up and drive it forward. I would expect some
> sort of report from all collectives (projects, user groups, and communities).
> At least annually, if not quarterly.Operationally, we could tie it in to the
> newsletter, but it should be something that every collective should do
> anyway and shouldn't be a huge bureaucratic effort.
>
> (Implementation suggestion: simply create a mailing list. Reports may be
> "The foo user group met 3 times in the last quarter", "The bar project
> released a new version of the code", "The baz community group created
> two new projects fred and joe". We want bullet points, not the complete
> works of Shakespeare.)

That sounds like a great idea to me.

> 932 	min 	P4 	NEW 		OGB 2007/002 Community and Project Reorganisation
>
> My own feeling is that this should be dropped. I don't want to see the OGB
> dictatiting the structure of the community. Rather, it should evolve naturally.
> (That's not to say that the OGB shouldn't guide and encourage communities
> and projects, and should point out where synergies and gaps exist that
> individual collectives may have missed, but we shouldn't be telling the
> community how to fracture itself.)
>
> 933 	min 	P4 	NEW 		OGB 2007/003: Communities with < 3 Core Contributors
>
> We should wait for constitutional reform.

Agree, though we may want to notify them if it is the case.

> 1383 	nor 	P4 	NEW 		set of mailing list issues
>
> Close. If there are individual issues then open new bugs, although they
> don't look like governance to me.

I agree.

> 1920 	min 	P4 	NEW 		OGB Directive to change "leader" to "editor" in web app
>
> Hm. An OGB directive. Does the new infrastructure follow this directive?
> If so, there's no problem.

I'm not sure, but this would be nice. Lots of teams have folks doing
edits that are not what you would typcially team "leaders"

> 1937 	maj 	P2 	NEW 		OGB 2008/010 Simplifying the structure of the
> OpenSolaris Community
>
> I *think* that this is the new constitution. Given that it failed, we
> should probably create a new bug to track future work. Although
> John Plocher's comments follow 2007/002. Is there anything else
> bundled in this that we need to track?
>
> 2186 	min 	P4 	NEW 		Make some useful SQL queries available for the grants
>
> Is there any reason this is still open?

Do we have any that exist? a few canned reports would be nice (like
unexpired grants for each community)

Valerie
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