Re: [RFD] COCONUT-SVSM project governance

["Jörg Rödel" <jroedel@suse.de>]

Hi Dionna,

On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 09:28:40AM -0700, Dionna Amalie Glaze wrote:
> I'm in favor of governance models that strongly value transparency,
> good-faith disagreement, and a set of community guidelines that both
> has enforcement power and accountability of all parties involved.

Thanks for your input, I completly agree with that baseline. One thing
to keep in mind is that any processes and rules we potentially put in
place are aligned with the size of the community. Really large
communities like for Rust or K8s certainly need different governance
than ours.

> 3 is a minimum I think, with at least 2 entities represented.

Right, we need to make sure different entities are represented.

> I think the sigstore.dev project does a good job of running regular
> community meetings and publishing meeting notes to allow for regular
> collaboration across institutions.
> I don't think we need to set that up until there's a good reason to
> take a discussion off the mailing list for higher bandwidth
> communication, since who needs more low value meetings?
> 
> [1] https://github.com/ossf/scorecard
> [2] Robert's Rules of Order
> [3] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/understanding-open-source-governance-models
> [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0rakUuPXFM

Thanks, that is a lot of good input. I think in general we need to find
a balance between the needed bureaucracy to ensure fairness and
inclusiveness on one side, and being able to stay productive and make
decissions as needed on the other. That balance might shift with the
size of the community, of course.

Regards,

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