Hi all, As discussed on the call yesterday, here's some links to background reading on F/OSS project governance, to use as background reading for our discussion Tuesday. There's a lot out there, but here are the two I think are the most important/relevant:
The classic book on running a F/OSS project is Karl Fogel's "Producing OSS", which is available free online. Chapter 4 is the relevant one for this topic (though the whole book is worth reading): http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html#social-infrastructure The IPython governance documents are here: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/IPEP-29:-Project-Governance I think it will give us a really good start on Tuesday if everyone is able to find the time to read Chapter 4 + IPEP 29 ahead of time. Something to do on the plane, maybe :-). --- For extra credit, some less crucial links that still might be interesting (and give something of a sense of the range of options): The Apache voting system: http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html The GNOME foundation's governance documents: https://www.gnome.org/foundation/governance/ The Debian constitution, esp. section 6 (the technical committee): https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution https://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte The GCC steering committee: https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/steering.html The Node.JS foundation (interesting case -- a foundation in the process of bootstrapping in order to resolve a fork triggered by conflict between outside contributors and the company that started the project): https://nodejs.org/foundation/ Jono Bacon's book "The Art of Community", also available free online: http://artofcommunityonline.org/Art_of_Community_Second_Edition.pdf The governance chapter here is much more oriented towards Ubuntu-sized projects with hundreds-to-thousands of contributors, so not as relevant for us, but it still contains lots of interesting stuff. If you have other links on this topic that you are think are interesting, please add them to the thread! -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
