Chip Thanks for sharing this important update.
Animesh > -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 1:21 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Fwd: Incoming IP Clearance VOTES > > FYI: > > I sent this to the general@i.a.o list a few minutes ago. David is going to > start > the IPMC vote threads over the next day or two, and I wanted to give them a > heads up about why they were going to see such a high number of these > clearance votes. > > -chip > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> > Date: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:14 PM > Subject: Incoming IP Clearance VOTES > To: gene...@incubator.apache.org > > > I wanted to give a heads up to the list: You are going to see 7 IP clearance > vote threads started here in the next couple of days, coming from the > CloudStack project. > > The tl;dr version of *why* is that members of the community were still > learning about what it means to develop within the project vs. outside of it. > > For those interested in some of the public discussion of this issue, see [1]. > The PPMC (including mentors) also had a very active discussion around the > root cause on the cloudstack-private@i.a.o list, as well as why some of us had > a problem with the way things went. I still have an action to summarize some > of those threads for the cloudstack-dev@i.a.o list, which will be happening > shortly. > > We realize that we are going to be asking for the process to be followed for a > fairly unprecedented number of donations (given that it's only January, and > there appears to have been only 4 in all of 2012). However, the CloudStack > community came to the conclusion that, after discussing the behavioral > issues, the correct path was to bring in the donations individually through > the > correct process. > > Prior to bringing these proposed donations to the IPMC, we held CloudStack > community discussions, followed by formal votes within the community, to > accept each of them. > > Please bear with us as we do this, and understand that we are working > together as a community to ensure that we have learned a bit more about > how to work as an Apache project. This is part of the process that we believe > a graduated TLP would have the maturity to do in this situation, and are > attempting to act accordingly. > > Last, after an SGA is signed, there will be one more IP clearance vote started > in the next week or two. This one isn't part of the community development > challenges noted above, as it is an honest donation of some integration test > code that was contracted for development by Citrix. > > Obviously, questions or concerns are welcome. I can do my best to > represent the CS community's positions on this list, as I'm sure our mentors > and other subscribed PPMC members will do. > > -chip > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/nu4f6tphsnsv7ls6
