[Vote] Minor change to governance document at http://www.xenproject.org/developers/governance.html (Vote before May 16th)

[Vote] Minor change to governance document at http://www.xenproject.org/developers/governance.html (Vote before May 16th)

[Lars Kurth]

Hi all,

as per the RFC at http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-04/msg03191.html which received no concrete feedback other than it looks good, I want to call a formal vote on this proposal.  As the proposal affects all subprojects, committers from the Hypervisor and XAPI teams which are both mature can vote.

== Committers that can Vote ==
Hypervisor: Andy Cooper, George Dunlap, Ian Jackson, Jan Beulich, Ian Campbell, Konrad R Wilk, Stefano Stabellini, Wei Liu
XAPI: Jon Ludlam, Chandrika Srinivasan, David Scott, Euan Harris, Germano Percossi, Siddharth Vinoth Kumar, John Else, Mate Lakat, Konstantina Chremmou, Rob Hoes, Si Beaumont, Thanos Makatos, Thomas Sanders, Vineeth Thampi Raveendran, Zheng Li

== Voting Form ==
See https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hsRzZFn64_05orITRHrDUvlUnIF9LytGHxkWPNPCmqk/viewform 
Please vote before May 16th

== Proposed Change ==
For convenience, find below a copy of the relevant section of http://www.xenproject.org/developers/governance.html that we are proposing to change.
---
Committer Elections

Developers who have earned the trust of committers in their project 
(including the project lead) can through election be promoted to 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
can 
[the (inclusion of the project lead) makes no sense]

Committer. A two stage mechanism is used

* Nomination: A committers should nominate a community member publicly 
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
              Community members should nominate candidates by posting 
              a proposal to appointments at xenproject dot org                                             

explaining the candidate's contributions to the project and thus why 
they should be elected 

as a maintainer on the project's public mailing list. 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
to become a Committer of the project.
[Typo: this should have been Committer in the first place]

The nomination should include a project, cite evidence such as patches  
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
               should
[the "include a project" makes no sense]
 
and other contributions where the case is not obvious. 
                                                       ^^^^ 
                                                       Existing 
Committers will review all proposals, check whether the nominee 
would be willing to accept the nomination and publish suitable 
nominations on the project's public mailing list for wider 
community input.
                                                                            
---
The modified section will look like

...
Committer Elections

Developers who have earned the trust of committers in their project 
can through election be promoted to Committer. A two stage mechanism 
is used

* Nomination: Community members should nominate candidates by posting 
              a proposal to appointments at xenproject dot org                                             
              explaining the candidate's contributions to the project 
              and thus why they should be elected to become a Committer 
              of the project. The nomination should cite evidence such 
              as patches and other contributions where the case is not 
              obvious. Existing Committers will review all proposals, 
              check whether the nominee would be willing to accept the 
              nomination and publish suitable nominations on the project's 
              public mailing list for wider community input.

...
                 
Best Regards
Lars
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