The title sound even stranger with non-english words in it. Please excuse the frenchism :-)
On 28/07/2015 08:38, Loic Dachary wrote: > Hi Ceph, > > The title sounds a little strange (Citerias to become a Ceph project) because > I'm not aware of projects initiated by someone external to Ceph that later > became part of the Ceph nebula of projects (as found at > http://tracker.ceph.com/projects/ or http://github.com/ceph/). I can however > imagine that a piece of software developed with no interaction with the Ceph > development community could be contributed and become a valuable addition > (port to non GNU/Linux Operating Systems, monitoring applications for mobile > devices etc.). > > Although publishing the code of such a component under a Free Software > license is a natural first step, there is more to do before it becomes part > of what we (the community of Ceph developers) care for on a regular basis. > Borrowing the OpenStack requirements ( at > http://governance.openstack.org/reference/new-projects-requirements.html ), > it could be expressed as: > > Free Software: > The proposed project uses a Free Software license as published at > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses > Project must have no library dependencies which effectively restrict > how the project may be distributed or deployed > Open Community: > The leadership is chosen by the contributors to the project > The project has regular public meetings on IRC and those meetings are > logged and published > Open Development: > The project uses public code reviews > The project has core reviewers and adopts a test-driven gate > The project provides liaisons that serve as contacts for the work of > cross-project teams in Ceph > Where it makes sense, the project cooperates with existing projects > rather than gratuitously competing or reinventing the wheel > Where appropriate, the project adopts technology and patterns used by > existing Ceph projects > Open Design: > The project direction is discussed at the Ceph Design Summit and/or > on public forums > The project uses the ceph-devel ML to discuss issues > > These requirements are formal in the case of OpenStack but they could also be > used in the context of Ceph, not as requirements but as a guideline. > > What do you think ? > -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
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