Dear all, > OK. What do you propose?
I propose to incorporate OpenSC as a French association under the loi
1901 law, under a general agreement. There are millions of associations
in France and the government provides a generic paper for incorporation.
I propose to use this paper without modification.
In short:
* All members are equal.
* Everyone can join the association, without filter.
* The executive board and president is elected every year.
* Recognized developers have an all-time right to join the board.
* We don't need any budget or funding as this is free software.
* I can handle the accounting as this is a bureaucratic issue.
* All information is public and available for download, including
accounting.
Very important : the executive board would agree to let OpenSC
developers organize themselves according to an organization statement.
The organisation statement should be one page, explaining the
development processes, close to Viktor proposal with the flexibility
proposed by Alon. i.e. :
* OpenSC has a stable GIT branch which is the release, an unstable
branch called staging.
* All patches are discussed and committed fast to staging. All
recognized developers can make commits, without any obligation to join
the association, just as in old times.
* Packages on the build farm are released daily to help detecting and
fixing bugs. The quality process comes from flexibility, the fast
release of versions and bug detection.
* We should have date releases, i.e. every two months. The dates are
known in advance, so everyone gets organized for the release.
In short, we want to give the power back to developers and contributors.
> > Martin and Ludovic, please confirm on the mailing list each of
> these:
> > A. OpenSC is a self driven-community with several core-developers,
> no
> > leader/owner.
> > B. Martin and Ludovic are core developers, not owners of the
> project.
> > OpenSC is owned by the community.
> Note that I do not administer any of the OpenSC resources/servers. So
> I can't do much.
I think there is a misunderstanding in the way OpenSC is organized. I
begin to think that Martin considers himself as an owner, not an
administrator.
So I am asking again to you Martin and Ludovic: 1) do you agree the
community to be the owner of OpenSC and 2) do you accept to serve the
community.
Unless you agree that by writing on the mailing list, we are going to
incorporate an association.
> And what if core developers to not want to join your association? :-)
As written previously, to make commit to GIT there will be no obligation
to be part of the association. Everyone is free to contribute to GIT and
submit patches and we'll commit them with great pleasure.
Kind regards,
--
Jean-Michel Pouré - Gooze - http://www.gooze.eu
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