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Discussion Topics/Issues (draft)

  • When do we know that a project is "done"? What are the end-of-life criteria?
  • What are the criteria for a "First Major Release"? How does Dave's proposed Project Readiness fit in?
  • What criteria/steps/policies must other releases adhere to?
  • Under what circumstances can (or what are the criteria for) a project (to) be moved back to Incubation? to a lab?
  • Should all projects be required to start as a lab prior to being proposed for Incubation?
  • Should we have subprojects (and fewer toplevel projects)?
  • How/when does a project get officially names? (Early → easier to set up repository, Later → marketing committee can be involved, see mailing list for discussion)

Comments

Hart:

I'd like our project lifecycle to satisfy three basic requirements:

  1. Make it easy for people to contribute high quality code that meets our mandate.  In other words, if something has technical merit and infrastructure behind it, the path to contribution should be easy.
  2. Make it easy for newcomers to understand the structure of Hyperledger, and how to get involved quickly.  This goes hand-in-hand with making it easy for the marketing folks to do their job and avoid confusion from outsiders on Hyperledger.
  3. Make technical governance relatively easy.  We don't want to bog down the TSC or other people who are responsible for things with meaningless governance rules.

Some comments on these points:

  1. I think that #1 has been less than optimal recently.  We've had a couple of recent projects where most of the discussion has been "should it be an independent project or a repo of another project."  I suggested subprojects as a potential compromise for future cases like this, but there are many other possible ways to handle this kind of issue (maybe a project taxonomy, for instance).
  2. On #2, the proliferation of projects has confused outsiders.  I can't count the number of times I've been asked how to build "an Ursa blockchain."  While I am definitely in favor of project proliferation, we need a way to control the message to the outside.  What we have right now is really confusing for newbies.
  3. As for #3, I think I (and a lot of others) were frustrated a bit by some of the recent project discussions.  We need to make things clear-cut.  While there will always be corner cases that require judgment calls, these should ideally be as few as possible.  This goes along with my points on #1.

What do you all think?


Bobbi:

To speak to point # 2, In order to reduce confusion for newcomers, consistent Marketing and learning materials that convey the Hyperledger projects accurately and that are designed to control the message. 


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