On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:46:33PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > I'm the proposed project lead for a project that has gotten the > requisite +1 votes from two communities. > > The project creation process states: > > "The set of Community Groups wishing to initiate > the Project shall, as a joint action, provide to the OGB all of the > following information: ..." > > and subsequently states that all this goes through the Project Herald > and Resource Administrator. > > Unless I'm missing something, how does this "joint action" actually > happen? do I spontaneously wait for the community to rise up and act as > one person (hah!)? who do I pester to take the next step? > > What have existing projects done?
Most existing projects have been sponsored by a single Group. There have been a couple of exceptions, and it appears we've not thus far done much to verify anything more than that the person notifying us is a Core Contributor to one of the sponsoring Groups. Having the Facilitators do it would be preferable but I'm personally loathe to enforce this in the absence of a Good Reason. cc'ing the Facilitators of other sponsoring Groups is appropriate. However, as only one Group's sponsorship is required it's not essential to the process that the other Group confirm its agreement (hence the "joint action"). If one of the Groups disputed its participation, we could treat it in the same way as if it later decided to stop sponsoring the project. Ideally, this entire process would be automated and a robot would be able to verify instantly that the Groups in question have actually voted, then instantly do everything the Herald and Resource Administrator do today. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
