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Tasks item #3272538, was opened at 2011-04-03 13:43
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Submitted By: Mark Miesfeld (miesfeld)
>Assigned to: Jon Wolfers (sahananda)
Summary: Formulate guidelines (or rules) for project membership

Initial Comment:
Currently this project has no statements, formal or informal, on who is, or how to become, a member of the project.  The project should have some type of understanding on how to become a member of the project, what different roles, if any, that members of the project may have, some idea of expected responsibilites of members of the project.

This need not be a formal written document, it could be just an informal discussion on the mailing list for instance.  Although, there is nothing wrong with having a formal statement.  A somewhat formal statement may prevent misunderstandings somewhere down the road.

A good example of a formal statement is in the charter for ooRexx which can be found at:

http://www.oorexx.org/charter.html

Although this project may not need such a formal statement, and such a formal statement may not even be right for this project, it does contain some ideas that are almost universal to open source projects.  These universal ideas may make a good starting point for discussion:

* Only committers are allowed unrestricted write access to the source code repository.

* Open source projects are a meritocracy, the more someone contributes to a project, the more that contributor is allowed to do within the project.

* Open source projects usually have several differing roles within the project, from roles with voting rights on down to, typically, a user of the project.

* Typically members with roles that do not include voting rights are promoted to roles with voting rights, through a vote of the members with voting rights.

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>Comment By: Mark Miesfeld (miesfeld)
Date: 2011-04-03 14:56

Message:
Jon - 

As the originator of this project, both the SourceForge project itself,
but also the whole idea of a RexxTill application, I think you are the
appropriate person for this task.  So, I'm assigning it to you.

That doesn't mean I'm in any hurry about it, I'm in no hurry at all. 
Plus, you can always just unassign yourself.  <grin>

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