wayland-protocols scope and governance

[Jonas Ådahl]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 08:13:58PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 16:12, Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr> wrote:
> > This document governs the maintenance of wayland-protocols and serves to outline
> > the broader process for standardization of protocol extensions in the Wayland
> > ecosystem.
> 
> OK, we're approaching the nine-month anniversary of this discussion. I
> think it would be good to merge it before it would've been born.
> 
> We seem to have a unanimous set of agreed-upon initial members with
> defined points of contact (listed below). : EFL, Enlightenment, GTK,
> KWin, Mutter, Qt, Weston, wlroots (also as a proxy for the wider
> phosh/Sway/way-cooler/etc projects using wlroots).
> 
> I think there's a good case to be made for adding Chromium/Exosphere
> to the list, since they are actively involved in protocol development
> and a few of their protocols have already found their way upstream.
> Other major users include GStreamer, Kodi, and VLC, but it doesn't
> seem like they participate too much in protocol development, and it's
> not clear to me whether or not they'd want to be involved. I don't
> have a strong opinion on whether or not they should be in the
> membership group. Similarly, you could add Firefox and perhaps even
> Mesa to that list; I remember others suggesting GLFW, SDL, maybe even
> imgui, mpv?
> 
> I would suggest that we push the patch with the following initial
> member projects and their points of contact defined, and finally
> enable MRs:
>   * EFL/Enlightenment: Mike Blumenkrantz @zmike
>   * GTK/Mutter: Jonas Ådahl @jadahl

I'd like to add Carlos Garnacho @garnacho here as well as an additional
point of contact.


Jonas

>   * KWin: Roman Gilg @romangg
>   * Qt: Johan Helsing @johanhelsing
>   * Weston: Daniel Stone @daniels, Pekka Paalanen @pq
>   * wlroots (& its users): Drew DeVault @ddevault, Simon Ser @emersion
> 
> If we find interest from other projects, we can use their membership
> applications as a first test of our governance procedures.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel