As part of the move
of Xen to the Linux Foundation, I have made a few proposals for
Governance changes on the Xen Project mailing lists in the last
few weeks. To avoid voting fatigue, several proposals are up for
review or voting:
Note that changes to
governance documents are marked in the following way:
- minor changes are
marked in orange italics
- additions are marked in
orange italics
- major deletions are
striked through
Governance Proposals
for Vote
The following two
proposals are up for vote using this voting form. As the two proposals affect all Xen Project teams, all committers,
maintainers and project leads of Mature projects and
the community manager can vote. The vote will be open until May
20, 2013.
Xen Project
Governance v2
The Xen Project Governance v2 has been out for community review since April 30th. It is now time
to vote using the voting form above.
Mailing List
Conventions v1
On April 14th, we
started a discussion on naming list conventions, which then became a
proposal for Mailing List Conventions. There seems to be no
controversy, thus it is time to vote using the voting form above.
Governance Proposals
for Review
Xen Security Problem
Response Process v2
In the last update on
the security problem response process, we promised a vote in
mid-January. Near the end of the window, some changes were
proposed, and we were somewhat sidetracked with launching Xen as a
Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
As this process
impacts many Xen users, we feel that it is prudent to run through
a final week of community review (closing on Monday May 20th),
followed by a formal vote by maintainers, committers and the
project lead of the Hypervisor project a week later. Review
comments are to be posted in response to this thread. The proposal can be found here.
For Vote: Dates and
Locations for 2014 Events
As it is very hard
to book event space on short notice, I wanted to ask you all where
to hold Xen Project user and developer events in 2014. Earlier
this year, there was a debate whether we should rotate Xen Events
around the globe. The answer was a very strong yes. As we have a Hackathon and Xen Developer
Summit in Europe this year, Europe will not be an option for a
developer event in 2014.
Rather than creating
a voting form, I decided to use the voting feature on the new Xen Project website.
To vote, you need to create an account. If you have difficulties,
let me know. The poll is here. The vote will stay open until the middle of
June.
