From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Kurth Subject: Call for nominations for new Hypervisor subproject maintainers and committers Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:51:02 +0000 Message-ID: <884EC716-0ED5-4D36-886A-4752AAC6C913__45601.9476791427$1456339962$gmane$org@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel , xen-announce Cc: Keir Fraser , Ian Campbell , xen-api , Tim Deegan , minios-devel , embedded-pv-devel , mirageos-devel , win-pv-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Dear Community members, I wanted to inform you that both Keir Fraser and Tim Deegan, have formally stepped down in their roles as committers from the Hypervisor team. In addition, you may have seen that Ian Campbell recently transferred maintainer-ship for many components to other community members (see http://bit.ly/1RnM8JP). This means that Ian will take a much less active role within the project in the future. First and foremost, the remaining committers and the Xen Project Advisory Board would like to thank Keir, Tim and Ian for serving the Xen Project community and their manyfold and diverse contributions. Given, that as a project, we have found it difficult to promote contributors to maintainer and committer roles in the past, the remaining group of committers felt that we should use a more formal appointment process to successions and succession planning and have asked me to organise this process. Taking a longer term view, the committers also felt that we should not restrict the appointment process to replacing committer positions only, but to consider additional committer positions based on merit and to also include new maintainer nominations. Thus, to fill these positions, we are soliciting nominations. To nominate yourself or someone else within the community, please send e-mail to appointments@xenproject.org with one of the following subject lines: - "Maintainer Nomination of [name]" - "Committer Nomination of [name]" Nominees will of course be asked, privately, whether they would be willing to serve, if they have been nominated by someone else. Please provide contact details (at least the full name and e-mail address of nominee) in the body of the e-mail and describe why the nominee would be a good fit a maintainer and/or committer. The body of the nomination should list technical knowledge that is needed to be a maintainer and/or committer and highlight core areas of expertise. In addition, we are also interested in specific instances, where the nominee showed communication and open source leadership qualities. For example: * Was able to help resolve disagreements, both technical and non- technical, which you were a party to or observer of. * Was able to contribute to improve quality and architectural consistency across several components within the Hypervisor * Has been involved in coordinating the activities of several community members * Has led or driven technical initiatives or larger scale feature development within the community * Has mentored and encouraged newcomers to the community * Has represented the project or aspects of it (e.g. via talks, blog posts, ...) * Has shown other communication and open source leadership qualities Being a maintainer and/or committer does require a time commitment. Nominees should be able to follow e-mail discussions on xen-devel@ on an ongoing basis and respond within a couple of days so that discussions progress. Committers should ideally be able to spend a minimum of 4-5 days working on the project per month. For maintainers, the time requirement is likely less. We anticipate starting our selection process according to the following rough time-table. Today: Public call for nominations for new committers and maintainers (self-nominations and 3rd-party nominations both welcome) March 11: Closing date for nominations up to March 30: We email non-self-nominated nominees in private to ask them to confirm whether they are willing to act as nominees. We will also discuss with all nominees, time commitment and other possible questions (from both nominees and existing committers), related to the proposed nominations. March 30: We conduct a formal vote to ratify nominations April 6: We publish the new maintainers and committers (we may do this earlier) Note that we have identified some issues in our governance, such as whether we need to elect a new project lead or whether we introduce a committee to steer the project instead, alongside other issues. We aim to resolve these issues *after* new maintainers and committers have been elected. If you do have any questions related to the process, feel free to reply to this thread. In addition, if you want to nominate someone else or yourself but are not sure, feel free to send your question to appointments@xenproject.org preceded by "Question:" in the subject line. Best Regards Lars Kurth Xen Project Community Manager Chairman of Xen Project Advisory Board