On 07/28/2015 07:59 AM, Loic Dachary wrote:
> The title sound even stranger with non-english words in it. Please excuse the 
> frenchism :-)

I think 'criteria' is fine in this context, and more to the point that
'requirements'.  Then again, I'm not a native speaker ;)

  -Joao

> 
> 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 ?
>>
> 

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