Add 'level playing field' requirement
From an upstream perspective, I see us as being in the business of providing open collaboration playing fields in order to build projects to reach the OpenStack Mission. We collectively provide resources (infra, horizontal teams, events...) in order to enable that open collaboration. An important characteristic of these open collaboration grounds is that they need to be a level playing field, where no specific organization is being given an unfair advantage. I expect the teams that we bless as "official" project teams to operate in that fair manner. Otherwise we end up blessing what is essentially a trojan horse for a given organization, open-washing their project in the process. Such a project can totally exist as an unofficial project (and even be developed on OpenStack infrastructure) but I don't think it should be given free space in our Design Summits or benefit from "OpenStack community" branding. So if, in a given project team, developers from one specific organization benefit from access to specific knowledge or hardware (think exclusive access to proprietary hardware or software that the open source code primarily interfaces with), then this project team should be rejected under the "open community" rule. This requirement (like all requirements in this document) is meant to be interpreted by humans on a case-by-case basis. In particular, there is a grey area around drivers for proprietary solutions that requires human judgment here. As a rule of thumb, if the open implementation was unusable open core bait to lure people into using the one and only proprietary driver, it would be a problem. If the open implementation was fully functional and nothing prevented adding additional proprietary drivers to the code base, there would be no problem. Change-Id: I0cd689afb8ddb7a269b9ce378e4c6647652f6977
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* The project has regular public meetings on IRC and those meetings are
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logged and published (moving to official OpenStack meeting channels once
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the project's application is accepted, if they're not held there already)
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* The project shall provide a level and open collaboration playing field
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for all contributors. The project shall not benefit a single vendor, or
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a single vendors product offerings; nor advantage contributors from a
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single vendor organization due to access to source code, hardware,
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resources or other proprietary technology available only to those
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contributors.
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* Open Development:
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