http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/04/18/qt-web-open-gov/Right before Qt Developer Days in Berlin, November 2012, we began discussing with the qt-project.org moderators how to bring rest of the Qt Project into Open Governance. This includes the content management system, forums, wikis and so on – everything run as a real community-driven project, as the Qt development itself has been run since October 2011.
This figure shows the different roles in the Open Governance structure. A detailed explanation is found on the Web Open Governance page[1].
To
make a proper plan, we’ve been running a series of structured IRC meetings, open for all, starting in December last year, continuing through February this year. As the meeting summaries show[2], we started the planning sessions with a discussion on the purpose of the Qt Project Web. Then we continued with discussion and investigation on how maintenance can be done, including co-development of the web content management system. Technical issues, such as improvement with single sign-on and improvements to the wiki-system were discussed. Privacy, internationalization and license issues have also been looked at.
Here are some key topics and actions crystallizing out of these meetings:
- Single sign-on and a wiki which handles merges (not losing work) Enabling system rights for developing, testing and rolling out new features, including maintenance has to be established.
- From a roles perspective: several new roles with extended rights are needed, especially giving more access to different admin rights as group management and access to specific web pages.
- From a process perspective: lazy approval, task prioritization and a conflict resolution board, if needed, in case of (hopefully very few) unresolved conflicts.
- Also the licensing issue was raised, making the Qt Project Web user agreement clearer, also including licensing to maintain privacy when doing system administration, testing, and development tasks on the site.
