On 26 Aug 2011, at 00:00, ext Vim Toutenhoofd wrote:
Matti, you wrote (on 08/25/2011 03:24 AM): ... [snip] ... I don't want any single company to "take over". I believe it's vital for the project's future success that it works in the future as a proper multilateral open-source project ...[snip]... That, of course, makes me think about how Linux is supported. I favour and admire that! Since "the Nokia MeeGo funding for PySide is slated to end after this year" (quoting you) I wonder if you have the interest, and will be able, to continue to be a 'driving force' in PySide's future. Are you open to assuming a 'somewhat-Linus-like' role in that future? If not, then is a successor of you 'on the horizon'? Vim Thanks for the flattery. :-) However, I don't think me continuing in a leading role would be a workable solution. I don't do much (or lately at all) development on or with PySide, so without the Nokia funding, I don't see how I could try to define the project direction. Therefore, I think a council (or steering group, or soviet, or whatever you want to call it ;-)) would, in my opinion, be a better solution. Then, different major stakeholders (main developers, major users, etc) could have proper representation and say on the project organization and facilities and development direction. Naturally, it would be up to the different contributors to implement features, according to agreed plans. If need be, I would be happy to participate in the council, and during a handover period (basically, until the end of the year), it might even make a lot of sense. I have plenty of opinions on matters, and they don't cost much. ;-) For example PSF, Maemo.org<http://Maemo.org>, Qt, or MeeGo project structures could serve as good examples how to set up the project structure. They're, of course, an order of magnitude larger than us, so some adaptation would be required, but the basic principles most likely would apply. Cheers, ma.
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