Excerpts from Chris Dent's message of 2016-08-02 11:16:29 +0100: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, James Bottomley wrote: > > > Making no judgments about the particular exemplars here, I would just > > like to point out that one reason why projects exist with very little > > diversity is that they "just work". Usually people get involved when > > something doesn't work or they need something changed to work for them. > > However, people do have a high tolerance for "works well enough" > > meaning that a project can be functional, widely used and not > > attracting diverse contributors. A case in point for this type of > > project in the non-openstack world would be openssl but there are many > > others. > > In a somewhat related point, the kinds of metrics we use in OpenStack to > evaluate project health tend to have the unintended consequence of > requiring the projects to always be growing and changing (i.e. churning) > rather than trending towards stability and maturity. > > I'd like to think that we can have some projects that can be called > "done". > > So we need to consider the side effects of the measurements we're > taking and not let the letter of the new laws kill the spirit. > > Yours in cliches,
Sure. I think I'd want to set things up to trigger a review, and not an automatic "expulsion". The TC at the time would be able to recognize a stable project and take into account whether the level of activity is appropriate for the maturity and nature of the project. Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev