[Board] About some process clarification

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2/22/2016 2:28 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Okay so this motion is to handle changes to support providers and "Open
> Hub" via trac ...
Yes it is.
>
> I think SAC can make this decision (and it sounds like a good one). No need
> for the board to get involved unless asked.
Tom had asked for the board to approve the process and hence the motion 
was made.
> (I am a firm believer in committees setting up shop as the volunteers see
> fit - and changing their mind as often as needed)
(me too, as long as the change is documented so as not to confuse anyone)

Venka
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 21 February 2016 at 20:59, Venkatesh Raghavan <
> raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:
>
>> On 2/22/2016 1:07 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>
>>> Think those are two seperate motions:
>>>
>> Fine.
>>
>>> I would like to move a motion to approve
>>>> 1) Business process on managing OSGeo Open Hub requests
>>>> using trac ticketing as outlined in [1]
>>>>
>>>> -1 OSGeo "claiming" a project should be limited to "incubation" and
>>> "osgeo
>>> labs" (soon to be renamed) process.
>>>
>>> It would be a bit rude of us to claim projects that have:
>>> a) not expressed interest in being part of osgeo
>>> b) not met our requirements for being open source and inclusive
>>>
>> I think this motion needs further clarification from my side.
>> The intention of the motion was not about "claiming" projects but to make
>> requests
>> coming from OSGeo Projects (graduated, in incubation, osgeo-labs (or
>> whatever
>> we are going to name it)) more sustainable and transparent and traceable.
>> Basically, to clarify on our website that requests regarding OSGeo-OpenHub
>> [1]
>> be filed as tract ticket rather than contacting the OSGeo-OpenHub managers
>> (Mateusz Loskot and Tom Kralidis) directly or sending e-mail to
>> info at osgeo.org
>> as outlined in [2].
>>
>> The new process is described in the wiki-page that Tom made (I made a few
>> minor edits)
>> and available at [2] which needs to be approved by the board.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Venka
>>
>> [1] https://www.openhub.net/orgs/OSGeo
>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenHub
>>
>>> 2) Managing OSGeo Service Provider updates using trac ticketing as
>>>> outlined in [2]
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>