[Pandas-dev] pandas governance

[Joris Van den Bossche]

Sounds very good!

Certainly now we are a NumFOCUS supported project (and have to deal with
financial things), I think this is important to do.

2016-01-05 19:15 GMT+01:00 Wes McKinney <wesmckinn at gmail.com>:

> hi folks,
>
> I'm sorry I didn't do this 2 or 3 years ago when I first handed over
> release management responsibilities to Jeff, y-p and others, but it
> would be good for us to formalize the project governance like most
> other major open source projects. See IPython / Jupyter for an example
> set of governance documents
>
> https://github.com/jupyter/governance
>
> Numpy also recently adopted a goverance document, based on the Jupyter
one: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-dev/dev/governance/governance.html and
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/6352.
Maybe also worth a look (although I don't know what they exactly changed
from the Jupyter one).


> I don't have particular concerns over the project's direction and
> decision making procedure, but as I've had several people raise
> private concerns with me over the last few years, I think it would be
> good for the community to have a set of public documents on GitHub
> that lists people and process in simple terms. This is especially
> important now that we can receive financial sponsorship through
> NumFOCUS, so that sponsored contributions are subject to the same
> community process as volunteer contributions.
>
> A basic summary of how we've been informally operating is: Project
> committers (as will be defined and listed in the governance documents)
> make decisions based on consensus; in the absence of consensus (which
> has rarely occurred) I will reserve tie-breaking / BDFL privileges. I
> don't recall having ever having to put on the BDFL hat but it's the
> "just in case" should we reach some impasse down the road.
>
> Sounds good!


> I can take a crack at assembling something based on the IPython
> governance docs if that sounds good.
>
> At the end of the day, an OSS project is only as strong as the
> individuals committing code and reviewing patches. As pandas will be 8
> years old in April, with 6 years as open source, I think we have a
> good track record of consensus-, common-sense-, and
> fact/evidence-driven decision making.
>
> best,
> Wes
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