Module Owners Activities Modules

Activities Modules

Overview

Activities modules are a part of Mozilla's Module Ownership system, a basic organizing and governance principle of the Mozilla project. (The name "activities" may change. It's a bit too generic and could apply to anything, including code modules. If you've got a good idea, please let Mitchell Baker know.)

Governance Module

• owner: Mitchell Baker
• peer(s): Brendan Eich
• newsgroup: mozilla.governance
• scope: project-wide
• governing policy document:
• responsibilities: Policies and process for how we distribute authority and govern ourselves; including:
  • Development and Implementation of new policies as appropriate for delegation of authority and responsibility
  • Management of the source tree
  • Balancing different constituencies of the Mozilla project
  • Maintaining the Mozilla identity as we take on new activities
• other: in the past there has been a group of people deeply involved in these topics regularly. We may create a group for this again as we go forward; perhaps as peers, perhaps as "members", perhaps as advisors.
• final decision-makers: the final decision maker -- when needed -- for the Mozilla project in technical matters is Brendan Eich and for other matters is Mitchell Baker; this has been the case since 1998 for Brendan and 1999 for Mitchell. I haven't figured out how to capture that clearly here. That authority is broader than "policy and process." I don't know if that is a property that attaches to the owner / peer of the governance module or if it is more personal. It should be stated somewhere clearly though.

Due to the large and diverse nature of topics included in the Governance module, we will divide responsibilities by sub-module, in order to delegate authority for specific pieces and identify particular areas of expertise.

Governance Submodule: Module Ownership System

• owner: Brendan Eich
• peers: Stuart Parmenter, Dan Mosedale, Robert Kaiser, Mike Connor, David Baron, Frank Hecker, Mitchell Baker
• newsgroup: mozilla.governance
• scope: project-wide
• responsibilities: Healthy operation of the module ownership system, including topics such as:
  • Filling vacant roles where appropriate
  • Ensuring module owners are fulfilling their responsibilities, and replacing those who are not
  • Creating and staffing new modules where new parts of the project evolve.
  • Figuring out what to do if a module isn't getting enough attention
  • Resolving conflicts among module owners

Governance Submodule: Incubator Repositories

• owner: Stuart Parmenter
• peer(s): Jonas Sicking, Mike Connor, Mike Shaver, Christian Sejersen
• newsgroup: mozilla.governance
• governing policy document: http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/incubator-repository.html
• scope: project-wide
• responsibilities: Implementing the Incubator Repository Policy including topics such as:
  • Evaluating requests for new incubator repositories
  • Determining if an incubatory repository may live longer than six months
  • Other issues that come up in the operation of incubator repositories

Planet Mozilla Module

• owner: Asa Dotzler
• peers: Robert Accettura, Deb Richardson, J. Paul Reed, Reed Loden
• newsgroup:
• scope: project-wide
• responsibilities: content and policy for planet.mozilla.org, including topics such as:
  • which blogs are syndicated to planet.mozilla.org
  • which content from syndicated blogs in included
  • other planet.mozilla.org policy issues