Project Structure Working Group
Charter
Develop a formal structure for the project organization.
Requirements to be considered include:
- Get all important stakeholders involved
- License GPL/LGPL are problematic
- Formally defined project infrastructure (wiki,source,etc.)
- Voting process must be established
- Ability to commercialize
- Attribution of contribution
- Formal testing and quality processes
- Formal committer access process
- Legal entity controls source code
- Funding model
- Formal contribution agreement
- Intellectual property assurance
Licensing issues include:
- Ensuring IP-clean code
- Forced disclosure of source code
- Reverse engineering issues
- Will make things more complicated to work on LGPL
- Contamination of proprietary code
- Streamlining of contribution process
- Amenable to commercialization
- Needs to be compatible with BSD license
- Needs to be compatible with EPL license
- Must be compatible with vendor requirements
- Starting from IP-clean code base
Deliverables
Recommended structure for ratification at the next STCI meeting.
Members
Note: nomination indicates your commitment to achieving the working group objectives
Greg Watson, IBM (Coordinator)
Rob Fowler, RENCI
Dorian Arnold, UWisc
Rich Graham, ORNL
Pete Nicholls, IBM
Timeline
First teleconference within 2 weeks (preferrably one week)
Draft recommendation to be circulated by email by 9/30/07
Final recommendation for ratification November 12