[python-committers] Organizing an informational PEP on project governance options (was Re: Transfer of power)

[Mariatta Wijaya]

Hi Nathaniel,

I know you mentioned my name earlier, and thanks for thinking of me. But
I'm really sorry, I just don't have the bandwidth to help out with this
right now.

Not sure if you've made any progress yet. Since the intention is to collect
information of the various governance models out there, I was thinking
perhaps you can ask non core developers to help out with this effort. So
that way you're not constrained by the limited number of core devs and
their limited free time available.

What do you think?

Mariatta


On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:17 PM Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> I'm sorry, I seem to have accidentally licked a cookie [1] here. I'm still
> keen to see this happen and to be a part of it, and have been trying to be
> find the spoons to take the lead on organizing, but it's been a few weeks
> now and that hasn't happened yet [2].
>
> Does anyone else want to take the lead here? A number of people have
> expressed interest in helping or in making introductions to other
> communities, and I think the next step would be to organize some kind of
> kick off meeting to rough out an outline and start divvying up work.
>
> -n
>
> [1] http://communitymgt.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Licking
> [2] not to go into too many details, but basically I'm currently sick,
> unemployed, and broke, which isn't a crisis but sorting it out is sucking
> up a lot of energy.
>
> On Jul 13, 2018 04:31, "Nathaniel Smith" <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Łukasz Langa <lukasz at langa.pl> wrote:
> > I'm +1 to an Informational PEP around the state of the art in project
> governance.
>
> I think this is a great idea. There's a lot of experience out there on
> different governance models, but of course any given project only uses
> one of them, so knowledge about what works and what doesn't is pretty
> fragmented across the F/OSS community. And this is a really important
> decision for us and our users, so we should do due diligence. For
> example, we should think this through at least as carefully as we
> thought through Github vs. Gitlab :-). A PEP is a good format to start
> doing that.
>
> I volunteer to co-author such a PEP. But I'm not up to doing it on my
> own. So... who else wants to be a co-author? (I'm not going to
> pressure anyone, but Brett, Mariatta, and Carol, please know that your
> names were the first ones that jumped to my mind when thinking about
> this :-).)
>
> What I'm thinking:
>
> - While this might eventually produce some recommendations, the
> immediate goal would just be to collect together different options and
> ideas and point out their trade-offs. I'm guessing most core devs
> aren't interested in becoming experts on open-source governance, so
> the goal here would be to help the broader community get up to speed
> and have a more informed discussion [1].
>
> - As per the general PEP philosophy, I think this is best done by
> having some amount of general discussion on
> python-dev/python-committers, plus a small group of coauthors (say 2-4
> people) who take responsibility for filtering ideas and organizing
> them in a coherent document.
>
> - Places where we'll want to look for ideas:
>   - The thread already happening on python-committers
>   - Whatever books / articles / blog posts / etc. we can find (e.g. I
> know Karl Fogel's Producing OSS book has some good discussion)
>   - Other major projects in a similar position to CPython (e.g.,
> node.js, Rust) -- what do they do, and what parts are they
> happy/not-happy about?
>   - Large Python projects (e.g. Django) -- likewise
>
> If you have suggestions for particularly interesting projects or
> excellent writing on the topic, then this thread would be a good place
> to mention them.
>
> -n
>
> [1] The NumPy project has put a lot of energy into working through
> governance issues over the last few years, and one thing that
> definitely helped was coming up with some "assigned reading" ahead of
> the main sprint where we talked about this. NumPy's problems are/were
> pretty different from CPython's, but I'm imagining this PEP as filling
> a similar role.
>
>
> --
> Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org
>
>
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