wayland-protocols scope and governance

[Roman Gilg]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:14 PM Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> 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
>   * KWin: Roman Gilg @romangg
>   * Qt: Johan Helsing @johanhelsing
>   * Weston: Daniel Stone @daniels, Pekka Paalanen @pq
>   * wlroots (& its users): Drew DeVault @ddevault, Simon Ser @emersion

Yea, let's get this done. Though I still think this initial list of
members should be mentioned directly in the document or better a
reference to the document with the list of current members be made
(which then contains the initial member list).

Also please add as second point of contact for KWin David Edmundson
@d_ed. Other than that:

Acked-by: Roman Gilg <subdiff at gmail.com> on behalf of KWin

> If we find interest from other projects, we can use their membership
> applications as a first test of our governance procedures.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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