[asterisk-dev] Proposed Working Group Guidelines

[Matt Fredrickson]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Leif Madsen <leif at leifmadsen.com> wrote:
> From a first glance, this looks pretty good! I don't really have anything
> else to add to what you've got there. It's succinct, and doesn't seem overly
> complicated.
>
> I'd like to mention something like the OPNFV[1] project, which basically has
> a mandate to utilize OpenStack as an NFV platform, bringing together various
> projects in the NFV space, and essentially building out reference
> architectures for various situations.
>
> This might be style as well that would work well and help a lot of
> integrators get involved with building out more complicated scenarios while
> not having to really be worried about the core development aspects. It would
> also provide a nice platform where larger integration projects can be fused
> together to help understanding any gaps in functionality, or areas that
> could be simplified in a deployment scenario.
>
> Having a focus on working groups within the developer community I think
> makes a lot of sense, but perhaps an approach to building reference
> architectures in the open where several integrators could work together,
> would help steer the project going forward, and permit the community as a
> whole to have a better foundation for different styles of deployments. This
> would clearly be in addition to the working group concept for the developer
> community.
>
> For the meeting aspects, IRC is generally a pretty good venue, and the
> OpenStack project uses this quite a bit. There are meetbots[2] that allow
> the meetings to be recorded, action items taken, and areas of interest to be
> documented. I don't generally favour 'in person' vocal meetings for these
> types of situations because of both timezone restrictions, and the
> integration of people whose primary language isn't necessary English (or
> where accents can cause issues, etc). Plus it's hard to keep a long term
> record of the conversations without a secretary.
>
> Good luck!
> Leif.
>
> [1] https://www.opnfv.org/
> [2] https://github.com/openstack-infra/meetbot

Thanks for looking it over Leif, and for some of the general thoughts.
Let me digest your comments and figure out if there's anything
actionable I'd like to add to my original list :-)

Hope you're doing well,
Matthew Fredrickson

>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Matt Fredrickson <creslin at digium.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey All,
>>
>> I've been thinking a lot about how working groups might work within
>> the context of the Asterisk project.  Here are a few guidelines that I
>> have come up with governing working groups.  Some of these guidelines
>> come from the Node project, as they have a lot of pre-existing
>> material on doing this.  I deliberately avoided comprehensively
>> importing their structure and guidelines, but pulled from some of
>> their more essential core principles.
>
>
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