Looking at the current policies, as listed on the web page:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/policies/
These need to be reviewed to see if they still apply (some are explicitly for a
particular year, 2008); for those still active we should consider whether to
(a) keep unchanged, (b) rescind, (c) modify.
I've listed each one, followed by my own comments.
* OGB 2007/001 Project Instantiation Policy Approved on April 25th, 2007
For as long as we're operating under the current constitution, this
policy is good.
Insofar as there's the potential for major reform to simplify the
whole process, major
effort to revise the policy seems unwarranted. (The only things I will
note are the naming
of a specific individual [Eric] as project herald, and the statement
on 4.1 that there's a
project naming policy.)
* OGB 2008/001 Statement of the OGB class of 2008's "can-do"
attitude and approach to governance
Specific to 2008, and was incorporated into the new constitution.
* OGB 2008/002 OGB Policy pertaining to the Constitution
Needs further thought in the light of any plans we may make to deal
with constitutional
reform.
* OGB 2008/003 Enabling email-based decision making
I think we continue with this.
* OGB 2008/004 Proposal on the logistics of Regular meetings of the OGB
Needs revision. Clearly, the day and time aren't right. The
requirement for audio
recordings needs consideration. And the agenda handling needs work
(see next policy).
* OGB 2008/005 Proposal on OGB activity/issue naming, tracking and archival
Need a new policy for 2009, as this one is explicitly for 2008. First
question: do we
continue to use bugzilla as the primary source? If so, then we can
probably take this
policy as is. If not, we need to start over. The advantage of bugzilla
is that it essentially
autogenerates the agenda for us. The use of bugzilla seemed to drop
off - for example,
this year we didn't have bugs raised for election candidates that I'm aware of.
* OGB 2008/006 Proposal on the use of the OGB-Discuss alias
I think it's good.
* OGB 2008/007 Proposal on the use of the OGB-Private alias
Close. One thing that's missing is what we've actually used the
private list for so
far, namely things like dissemination of personal details or operational details
that must be restricted to the members of the OGB.
* OGB 2008/008 Proposal on Website Community and Web Editorial Board
Looks very stale. Do we simply live with it until the new
infrastructure launches?
We'll need a new policy at that point. Or do we write a revised policy now?
* OGB 2007/002 Proposal on Community and Project Reorganisation
* OGB 2007/003 Proposal on Communities with < 3 Core Contributors
See also: BugZilla OGB issues
Those 2 proposals are in bugzilla, so I'll construct a similar list
for the bugzilla
issues (unless someone else gets in first).
--
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
