[Numpy-discussion] interpretation of the draft governance document (was Re: Governance model request)

[Sebastian Berg]

On Do, 2015-09-24 at 10:45 +0200, Sebastian Berg wrote:
> On Do, 2015-09-24 at 00:22 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Travis Oliphant <travis at continuum.io> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Here is a list of the current Contributors to the main NumPy repository:
> <snip>
> > >>
> > >> To become eligible to join the Steering Council, an individual must be a
> > >> Project Contributor who has produced contributions that are substantial in
> > >> quality and quantity, and sustained over at least one year. Potential
> > >> Council Members are nominated by existing Council members and voted upon by
> > >> the existing Council after asking if the potential Member is interested and
> > >> willing to serve in that capacity. The Council will be initially formed from
> > >> the set of existing Core Developers who, as of late 2015, have been
> > >> significantly active over the last year.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Concretely, I'm asking to be included in this initial council so a simple
> > > "along with Travis Oliphant who is the original author of NumPy".   If other
> > > long-time contributors to the code-base also want to be on this initial seed
> > > council, I think it would make sense as well.
> > 
> > I'll leave this discussion for the other thread that's specifically
> > about the council membership, so as not to confuse matters.
> 
> Well, I think we can at least learn one thing from this directly. I
> think we should include some relation to historic contributions into the
> document. I think what might be nice to do would be for example to also
> "seed" the emeritus list (if it is not too difficult).
> It is somewhat unrelated to governance, but since we want it to be a
> prominent document, it should not overshadow the past.
> 

Heh, sorry, I see this was already pretty much the case. Could maybe be
extended a bit, but missed that....


> - Sebastian
> 
> 
> <snip>
> > 
> > -n
> > 
> 
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