Create v1 project governance #28
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Converting to draft to make it unmergeable during RFC |
Do we have meeting recording link to share about the OpenXLA community meeting on Jan 17, 2023? |
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@ManfeiBai the meeting actually happened a week later than normal. I'll be uploading the video shortly and linking to the meeting directory ASAP. |
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I think this is a great initial version of OpenXLA governance.
The core values are compelling, the decision-making process looks sound, and the overall spirit of the proposal sounds good to me. I especially like the proposed hierarchical structure because it makes it clear what groups are involved in what decisions.
There are some rough edges in the proposal, e.g. there are some TODOs and some implementation details may need additional work. However, as Mehdi mentioned in one of the threads, there is a clear process for updating this document if needed, so I am confident that we'll figure out these things together as a community as we go.
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| OpenXLA favors a consensus-driven approach to development. Contributors are expected to engage in discussions and attempt to resolve all blockers raised by other contributors, either through RFCs or during code reviews discussions. We are using blocking consensus to ensure “equal footing” and to act as a forcing-function to keep the community whole. | ||
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| Consensus is employed by many other projects, some like LLVM don’t define a structure around it and operate like a do-ocracy. We recognize that there are limits to consensus with respect to scaling a project, and as such we also adopt a technical governance structure that is hierarchical. This will: |
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Recommend quotes around "do-ocracy"
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Thanks for driving this Thea!
I trust you took good notes of the comments to be addressed incrementally, this is an important stepping stone we will be able to build on top of, so I am very supportive of landing this to unblock the governance structure to start getting formalized.
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Thanks to all the reviewers & community feedback -- excited to move forward on this! |
Proposing a project governance model for OpenXLA.
Please see slides from the 12/13/2023 community meeting to get an overview of the goals and principles we are hoping to achieve with this model.
This document is a draft (hence many TODOs), and this PR is open for community review and feedback until Jan 13, 2023. Outstanding comments and planned revisions will be discussed in the OpenXLA community meeting on Jan 17, 2023.
/cc @burmako @joker-eph