<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Peter,<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 22, 2016, at 2:00 PM, Peter Tribble <<a href="mailto:peter.tribble@gmail.com" class="">peter.tribble@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Adam,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for doing this. In my view, it's long overdue.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Thanks for you support. It might be long overdue, but rather late than never. I hope this step will make former developers come back.<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Comments below.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">As part of a larger effort at providing a more formal governance structure for the OpenIndiana project, </div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, there is a wider context to this. Which is a good thing, but it would be good to have</div><div class="">that fleshed out. Not necessarily conclusions, but it would be good for the community at</div><div class="">large to understand what's missing and what's being done about it.</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Yes, the wider context exists. The idea is to make every possible step to move project out of decline. There are few more things current developer have in the pipeline: </div><div> - CoC (debated now),</div><div> - governing board elections,</div><div> - mission statement update,</div><div><br class=""></div><div> - new end-user documentation (based on Michael’s work),</div><div> - oi-userland changes and further simplifications to lower barrier for contributing. There will be a call for new package contributions,</div><div> - new ways to try out and develop OI (vagrant boxes, qcow2 images and netboot.xyz integration),</div><div> - some infrastructure work (wiki update, long needed cleanup and reorganization, infra reinstall and better coverage via more mirrors),</div><div> - forum, so people can communicate and help each other (it seems that mailing lists and IRC channels are not sufficient),</div><div><br class=""></div><div> - stable version based on hipster (/dev -> /stable will be a seamless transition. So far, plain upgrade works, but zones complicate it a little bit and that has to be sorted out).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>There is a lot of work to be done, but unless we can get more developers on board, not everything can be accomplished in reasonable time. With stable release, we might need a few more devs, who could fill the ranks and help with maintenance. So I hope that the order of steps is logical and reasonable to everybody. To be clear, some things are already happening (mostly technical related). Political ones are a matter of discussion of course and shall be discussed and further agreed. The idea is to come up with some proposal, which could be discussed.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>This list is very brief and I could write a blog post detailing every point if interested. However, it will take me a few days. Just let me know if you want to have it in more details or enough information was provided.</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">I’d like to announce on the behalf of OI developers the adoption of an OpenIndiana Code of Conduct. The draft text for this new document can be found at <a href="http://www.openindiana.org/community/code-of-conduct/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.openindiana.org/community/code-of-conduct/</a>.<br class=""><br class="">We would also like to point out this draft document is open to discussion and acceptance by the community.<br class="">Our desire is for the discussion to be civil and for it to center around the verbiage of the Code of Conduct.<br class="">We do not wish for the discussion to go off topic, or question the need for such a document.<br class=""><br class="">Please compose your thoughts and comment with as few replies as necessary so the community may solidify the final text of this document.<br class=""><div class="">
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</div></blockquote></div><br class="">Overall, I'm happy with most of this. It's about the right length, as well.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think you need an explicit reporting mechanism. Something like "email <a href="mailto:abuse@openindiana.org" class="">abuse@openindiana.org</a>"</div><div class="gmail_extra">or the like. (Of course, you need that to be routed somewhere.) And the first statement about</div><div class="gmail_extra">confidentiality means that the 2nd part about not being made public is redundant. There's also</div><div class="gmail_extra">no mention of consequences.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Michael and I slightly modified our initial proposal to include your points:</div><div><ul class=""><li class="">Violations of the CoC should be reported to the distribution maintainers via <a href="mailto:abuse@openindiana.org" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">abuse@openindiana.org</a>.<br class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Neither reporters nor reported persons will, or should be, made public.</li></ul></li><li class="">Upon
receipt of a problem report, the distribution maintainers will
investigate the issue and determine whether it warrants further action.
Any further action will be proportional to the severity of the problem.</li></ul><div class="">I also discussed your points with Alexander in Saint Petersburg and we came to the conclusions that mentioning every possible way to handle punishment would be a much longer list. So, we thought that putting it this way is better. </div><div class="">I hope that you are OK with it. If you have any further comments, please let us know.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Adam</div></div></div></body></html>