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On 1/11/21 4:09 PM, Brad Bishop wrote:
> Hello OpenBMC-ers!
> 
> Your TSC has been aware of the problem of fragmentation in our project 
> for some
> time.  Fragmentation is a loose term - for the purposes of this note 
> consider
> it to be any time contributor efforts in the community are duplicated 
> without
> thought given to maintenance and/or compatibility.
> 
> To begin to address this issue the TSC is looking for volunteers to 
> serve on a
> "repository review forum" to which the TSC will initially delegate its
> authority in the areas of:
> - new repository creation
> - placement of contributed new function into existing repositories
> 
> The TSC fully expects the scope of this forum to quickly grow into the 
> role of
> a traditional TSC providing frequent, technical oversight to project
> contributors.  The current TSC will continue to serve the project in 
> terms of
> governance, advocacy and industry exposure - and likely get a rename 
> (OpenBMC
> Board? or OpenBMC Steering Committee?) in the process.

Great idea! :)

My vote: "OpenBMC Board"

That would make it seamless to transition into a different open source 
funding model in the future if the project decides to do so.

Kurt Taylor (krtaylor)

> The new forum would meet periodically or at the demand of other forum 
> members
> to:
> - raise the forums combined awareness of new function under development
>    (information exchange)
> - build a consensus within the forum on where the function should exist
> - inform the function contributor and the rest of the community of the 
> decision
> 
> A successful forum would be a forum that can simultaneously encourage the
> contribution of new and innovative solutions to existing problems without
> introducing complexity to the project as a whole.
> 
> A successful forum member will have previously demonstrated a breadth of
> understanding of the upstream OpenBMC codebase through:
> - frequent participation in peer review, the mailing list, IRC, and 
> Discord.
> - submission of high quality designs and code to upstream OpenBMC
>    (github.com/openbmc)
> - a history of working with and guiding less experienced OpenBMC developers
>    in a timely manner, enabling them to come up to speed quickly.
> 
> If you are interested in serving the project in this manner, please 
> reply to
> submit yourself as a candidate.
> 
> -brad, on the behalf of the OpenBMC TSC