Open webOS governance model described [LWN.net]

Here is an HP blog posting giving a high-level description of how the webOS project will be governed. It is an Apache-inspired bureaucracy with a number of subprojects, each of which will have its own "project management committee" watching over it. "PMC members are expected to act individually, making decisions in the best interests of the project, when acting on PMC or development lists. Each PMC is responsible for ensuring their project follows certain core requirements set by the board or other corporate officers of Open webOS. Examples include following legal, branding, and infrastructure related requirements, and ensuring their community operates in a manner similar to that outlined by the Apache Way."

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Open webOS governance model described

Posted Feb 16, 2012 19:12 UTC (Thu) by b7j0c (guest, #27559) [Link] (4 responses)

please someone convince me that this isn't meego part eleventeen

Open webOS governance model described

Posted Feb 17, 2012 0:10 UTC (Fri) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] (1 responses)

In the meantime, Mer is alive: http://makeplaylive.com/
A fully open source tablet, powered by KDE Plasma Active :-)

Alex

Open webOS governance model described

Posted Feb 17, 2012 0:15 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

I doubt the CPU design is open.

Open webOS governance model described

Posted Feb 17, 2012 1:54 UTC (Fri) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

Well, WebOS is actually out there in the wild on the TouchPad tablets and several phones. So, it is already a whole lot more successful than Meego was (especially ignoring the N9 as not really Meego).

Enough people seem to like WebOS that there is certainly no reason why something should not come of it. It would be somewhat surprising though if it challenged Android or iOS in any serious way.

Open webOS governance model described

Posted Feb 25, 2012 8:28 UTC (Sat) by speedster1 (guest, #8143) [Link]

> please someone convince me that this isn't meego part eleventeen

WebOS has fairly little in common with Meego, aside from both being embedded linux offerings.

1) WebOS has a very strong community project which has long had a good relationship with Palm and then HP engineers. It will not be an insular project with most of the work and decisions being done by the paid engineers, but rather a real joint effort between the community and paid engineers.

2) WebOS is a stable product shipping for many years without a habit of frustrating developers by controversial shifts in technology.

3) WebOS already has a very polished UI that both Linux users and non-Linux users find appealing.

A fellow gentoo developer at work decided my WebOS tablet was cooler than his android tablet and had to go acquire one.

At SCALE, I was hanging around the WebOS Internals booth when they were introducing an HP Touchpad door-prize to its proud new owner. She labeled herself as a non-geek, and was very pleased at how easy it was to learn -- compared favorably to an ipad she had played around with.

A friend's 9-year old loves a WebOS phone and wants a WebOS tablet to go with it (but has to settle for borrowing dad's). His mom is a Mac user who also loves her WebOS phone.

[1] http://www.webos-internals.org/

Open webOS governance model described

Posted Feb 24, 2012 5:21 UTC (Fri) by denials (subscriber, #3413) [Link]

From the blog post, describing expectations that webOS will have a small number of committers:

"""(As an example, Linux has thousands of users, of whom only 2.5% are developers or contributors and fewer than 100 are committers. So, the project may have many, many users, but it’s the PMC and the committers who determine the project’s baseline.)"""

Linux users are measured in the thousands? That seems like an incredibly low estimate... (Of course, that may be a case of selective perception on my part, being an LWN reader and all.) It also makes me wonder how Red Hat was able to employ 3,760 people last year [1]

1. http://investors.redhat.com/faq.cfm