From 2d693ed19b6519a5eebb8b1c80507281e8b5af6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jo-Philipp Wich Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 17:45:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update rules after majority vote on todays meeting Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich --- pages/rules.txt | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/pages/rules.txt b/pages/rules.txt index b59b48e..55a6b8d 100644 --- a/pages/rules.txt +++ b/pages/rules.txt @@ -5,19 +5,44 @@ include::menu.inc[] == Current Rules -. There is two roles in the project: committer and non-committer -. Committers have the right to vote on general project decisions -. General project questions are decided with a simple majority vote -. Committers being unreachable for three months in a row loose their commit - and voting rights -. Commit means full commit. there is no partial or restricted commit. -. Frequent contributors may become committers when a simple majority among - existing committers agrees -. Votes and decisions will be made public -. Infrastructure should be outsourced where possible -. Any Infrastructure that cannot be outsourced needs to be accessible - by at elast 3 people. -. the project does not offer email accounts under the project domain - (apart from abuse, admin, ...) +. The only role distinction within the _LEDE_ project is between committers + and non-committers, there is no core developer group or other specially + privileged members. +. All committers have the right to vote and are invited to liberally exercise + this voting right in order to keep a broad consensus on project matters. +. Project matters, overall development directions etc. are decided by simple + majority votes. Votes may be held in different ways like simple yes/no + decisions, majority decisions among multiple proposed choices etc. +. Committers being unreachable for three months in a row shall get their + commit and voting rights revoked in order to retain the ability to do + majority votes among the remaining active committers. +. There shall be only full commit rights in any case, no partial access or + otherwise restricted access to the repositories. +. Frequent contributors may become committers after a simple majority + agreement among existing committers. Project members are free to suggest + suitable people. +. Any votes and decisions made will be made public on the project websites. +. Project infrastructure should be outsourced FOSS community operated + services whenever possible in order to allow project members to focus on + actual development efforts. +. Any infrastructure that cannot be outsourced and/or is operated by the + project itself shall be administrable by at least three different people + to reduce the likelyhood of the project getting locked out due to operators + being unreachable. Responsible operators for the various services shall be + documented publicly. +. The project will not offer email accounts under its project domain for + privacy and equality reasons. . Changes to these rules require a two third majority among the committers - holding voting rights and shall be documented + holding voting rights and shall be documented. + +=== Changes to these rules === + +==== Tue, 5 Apr 2016 +Changed wording of the rules and removed typos. Extended infrastructure +rule to emphasize the FOSS character of used hosting services, added +requirement of documented responsibilities. +http://meetings.lede-project.org/lede-adm/2016/lede-adm.2016-04-05-12.59.html[Agreed upon] +by 6 of 6 attending and 6 of 8 total people. + +==== Thu, 24 Mar 2016 +Initial draft, http://meetings.lede-project.org/lede-adm/2016/lede-adm.2016-03-30-11.05.html[agreed upon by 6 of 6 attending people]. -- 2.30.2