[Buildbot-devel] Discussion of the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement with Conservancy (was Re: Offer of membership to Buildbot into Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.)

[Marc-Antoine Ruel]

Thanks Bradley for the explanations.

I'm fine with the process.

M-A


2013/4/11 Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us>

> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>
> wrote:
> > This potential outcome is why it's important from Conservancy's
> > perspective to make sure everyone who is involved with a project in a
> > serious way signs the FSA, and that at least those who are nominally
> > involved (or are previous heavy contributors) give an email "ok" to the
> > idea that BuildBot is joining Conservancy.
> ...
> > Thus, if there is a major contributor to BuildBot who feels
> > uncomfortable signing the FSA, Tony and I want to investigate why in
> > great detail.  I can tell you vaguely that there *have* been projects
> > who wanted to join Conservancy, but we didn't take them ultimately
> > because some major contributor simply refused to sign the FSA (primarily
> > for reason (a) above).  We couldn't sort out the issue, so the project
> > just didn't join.
>
> That clarifies it quite well - thanks!  The Buildbot community is
> currently only defined by a rough consensus among the bunch of us, and
> signing the FSA is a way of saying "yes, I agree that this is what
> Buildbot is, and that I'm OK with it becoming a sponsored project of
> Conservancy, and with recognizing that the PLC has the right to make
> decisions on behalf of the community."
>
> The main thing we need to know ASAP, then, is if anyone out there in
> the Buildbot community who feels they cannot sign the agreement.
> Please get in touch soon - either on-list or privately - so we can try
> to work things out or (hopefully not!) call off the party.
>
> > Anyway, Tony and I did some drafting on the one issue of your concern at
> > the PyCon meeting: the Termination without a Successor provision.
> > Here's our proposed text on that (as a diff against the default
> > template):
> ...
> > Does that address the concern that you were raising at the meeting at
> > PyCon?
>
> I'm happy with that, but it was Tom's concern, in particular, so I'll
> await his answer.
>
> > The main drafting action, though, is to write the Representation
> > section.  Tony would be glad to make a first draft, or you can make it
> > if you prefer that.  Which do you prefer?
>
> I'll take care of that.
>
> > Actually, I'd prefer these sorted the other way around: i.e., it would
> > be ideal if the initial PLC is known at the time of signing the FSA.
> > However, that's not mandatory if there's a good reason to figure out who
> > the signatories should be, and then finalize the PLC after the FSA is
> > signed.
>
> That sounds like a good plan.  Revising my earlier actions, then:
>  * Start a thread asking for nominations for the PLC
>  * Draft the agreement based on the LaTeX document in the OP
>
> As far as signatures, when the time comes I will make a good effort to
> contact everyone who's been involved with the project - basically the
> git shortlog, posters to the mailing list, and everyone in
> MAINTAINERS.txt.  Your email seemed to distinguish "signatures" and
> "email 'ok'".  What form do the signatures need to take, then?
>
> Dustin
>
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