I've been working on a rough draft of a governance model that I'll post to the wiki for comments as soon as it is beyond the stream-of-conscience stage (leaning heavily on the Gnome model). Stay tuned!!
-walter On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:01 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 21:16 +0200, Ivan Krstić wrote: >> On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: >> > The community itself needs to decide on a set of people who are the >> > group of sysadmin people for Sugar's possible move to be something all >> > are comfortable about. >> >> Please don't top post, and please do quote relevant sections of >> original e-mails when replying. I don't know what the above statement >> is referencing, since I never made any claims about who should choose, >> or act as, the SugarLabs sysadmins. >> >> > And for more to contribute in the sysadmin area, the system >> > administration needs to have redundancy, and actually get documented >> > and >> > communicated. Single points of failure is not an option to us at this >> > date. >> >> A single point of failure was never an 'option'; at OLPC, it was a >> reality due to organizational failings. No reasonable open source >> community will make those kinds of mistakes. >> >> I've offered hardware, bandwidth and root to a small group of trusted >> SugarLabs people. I'll leave scheduling meetings and discussing it >> with OLPC to people who have the patience. > > A good resource would be the gnome-infrastructure guys at > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure . Aren't > they at least partially hosted at Canonical? > > I will set up a SysadminTeam space on w.l.o later today. > > As for the tone, let's keep it positive. Jim and OLPC are trying to > spinoff (disentangle) Sugar and Sugar Labs from OLPC. But, there is a > catch--Sugar is a primary component in OLPC's primary product. If Sugar > Labs collapses, OLPC is in a painful position. From a practical > perspective OLPC is going to have to help keep Sugar Labs going until we > can get our feet under us. > > Imagine loaning your credit card to your kid for the first time. You > will probably give it to him, but sure as hell want a plan and some > limits! > > As a result, Sugar Labs needs to view OLPC as a customer, right now our > only customer. Jim was offering to help Sugar Labs meet it's current > hosting needs. In exchange he wanted a plan. > > As Greg pointed out in an earlier thread, we need to work on our 'Dog > and Pony Show'. We need to be able to present a plan. > > Until the approved governance methods are in place, could we set up > advisory board to help us keep on track? > > Thanks > Dfarning > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
