[Mageia-discuss] Teams setup experience shared

[Romain d'Alverny]

Hi everyone,

so, back in October, we presented you with the governance model for Mageia:
 - teams with members, among which elected leaders and representative,
 - a council of representative,
 - a board of elected past representatives.

At the time, we did not agree on, or find, a way to manage how
contributors (with a consultative voice) would become full team
members (with a decisive voice in the team). We had a debate about the
wording in the mentoring process too (the "master" thing).

So we just left some time to think about it.

Remember, the governance is (basically) based on a bottom-up structure
where contributors get mentored into the teams (become team peers),
elect their representative to the Council (managing projects
day-to-day life), which in turn elects the Board (which sets the
project direction and manages the association).

Back to teams. Having to bootstrap things now (that is, having some
ground to have leaders and representatives), we tried to come up
locally with something working first before exposing it; hence this
mail, to share the experience and get some feedback.

Packaging/devs teams did it lately, see
https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20101217/001751.html . Team
peers (who could elect or be elected) were designated as those who
were already official Mandriva packagers in the past. So, they elected
two representatives that will share the leader/representative roles.
These were elected for 6 months by all packagers registered on the
packagers wiki page. In turn, these representatives will have to
coordinate the mentoring process setup.

Web team did it too, with a slightly different process, having no real
reference for "previous official Mandriva packagers". The process has
been described/applied in this mail after the Web team meeting past
week: https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-webteam/2011-January/000093.html
.

I'll make it short and just ask for your feedback about this and see
how we can make a more generic pattern for each teams, flexible and
simple enough.


Cheers,

Romain