Robert Lunnon wrote:
"Community Focused Process" means what it says, develop a process which is centred on the community the project serves. This requires the project to answer some introspective questions
1. Who "owns" Wine, does wine belong to A.) Alexandre, or B) the community it serves.
A) Alexandre is a benelovent dictator. He manages Wine with the interests of "the community" in mind, as he sees them.
1. Answer the questions about the "ownership" of wine and identify the community it serves. Determine the right of the community to be involved is setting wines direction IE The Bill of rights I mentioned before (for each community Developers VS Users etc).
Your "bill of rights" is the Wine license, the LGPL.
2. Alexandre documents the exact logic he uses to determine patch acceptability which becomes the patch acceptance policy in the interim.
It's very likely impossible to write that down. If you don't agree with me, please write down your proposal.
3. The project develops a community process for establishing project direction and maintaining the patch acceptance policy which includes stakeholders elected from the "owners" IE communities with a stakeholding in wine
NetBSD is a project that is (was?) run by committees: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html If you want Wine to be run by a committee, how about creating your own fork so you can run it as you see fit? Mike