OGB 2008/010 group creation

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Communities, Projects and User Groups Creation

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Goals/Desires

  1. Collectives can be Created, Archived and Reactivated as well as change into other collective types
  2. Lightweight process for creation
  3. All entities considered equal (at least at the start)
  4. Survival of the fittest, matching natural open source evolution
  5. Communicate that something new has been formed to those interested
  6. Retain OGB oversight to act as a "safety valve" for exceptional cases
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Creation Process

(Note: While this process uses Bugzilla, the OGB will modify it if a better workflow solution becomes available to the OpenSolaris community)

  1. Go to http://defect.opensolaris.org
  2. Create a new "bug" under Community > Infrastructure > Create with the following information
    1. Your opensolaris.org user ID (required)
    2. Type (Community, Project, User Group)
    3. Community Name
    4. Title
    5. Description
    6. Leaders (opensolaris.org user IDs required)
    7. Mailing List Requirements
  3. Someone other than yourself with an Opensolaris.org user ID needs to vote for the "bug" you just created. Group requests will only be accepted once they have one or more votes from people other than the originator.
  4. Wait. As someone becomes available, your request will be processed by one of the admin team and you will be notified.
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Collective type change

  1. Go to http://defect.opensolaris.org
  2. Create a new "bug" under Community > Infrastructure > Change with the following information
    1. Your opensolaris.org user ID (required)
    2. Community Name
    3. New Type (Community, Project, User Group)
    4. Rationale/context
  3. Wait. As someone becomes available, your request will be processed by one of the admin team and you will be notified.
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Archiving

From time to time, a group may become dormant. If there has been no activity from a particular group for 6 months, or at the discretion of the OGB or its nominated Board Committee acting in the interests of the community, the following may happen:

  • Mailing list changed to 'no subscriptions'.
  • Web page visibly tagged with 'Dormant'
  • List of leaders/participants reset to zero
  • SCM write disabled
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Reactivating

Should you wish to reactivate an Archived group

  1. Go to http://defect.opensolaris.org
  2. Create a new bug under Community > Infrastructure > activate with the following information
    1. Name
    2. Reasons to activate
    3. Leaders (preferably opensolaris.org user IDs)
  3. Wait. As someone becomes available, your request will be processed by one of the admin team and you will be notified.
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Backend Implementation Notes

  • All notifications to bugs in Community > Infrastructure > Creation will be sent to group-creation@opensolaris.org
  • Leaders are those who have admin and decision rights within their respective group
  • Leaders can add permission rights as and when they see fit, so no need to burden the creation process for Contributor rights
  • Mailing list names should indicate purpose, and have one of the following suffices
    • - dev: Developer discussion
    • -discuss: General discussion
    • -notify: Notification alias for SCM putbacks
  • Private mailing lists may be granted in exceptional circumstances, but full rationale is required and OGB signoff
  • Although this process is intended to be essentially automatic, the OGB will form a Board Committee with oversight and with the power at its sole discretion to veto group requests if it is in the interests of the community for this to happen.
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