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Do we still need clause that states that pre-existing OBF projects were granted affiliated status? #91

Closed malvikasharan closed 2 years ago

malvikasharan commented 2 years ago

Moving discussion from #90

The Affiliated Project Policy has a clause stating that pre-existing OBF projects were granted affiliated status, followed by one allowing other projects to be grandfathered. This issue is to discuss if we still need that second clause:

Other projects that existed prior to enactment of this policy can be grandfathered to Affiliated or Candidate OBF Project status as well upon approval by the OBF Board of Directors. It is expected that the Board will do so in public session. For pre-existing projects grandfathered to Candidate OBF Project status the minimum waiting period for seeking Affiliate OBF Project status is waived.

Specific comment by @peterjc:

"I looked back at https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/44, but don't immediately see any discussion there of this entire clause. It seems like a board approved short-cut of the process, which may have been sense when the policy was new and there were a couple of potential new affiliations on the horizon, but do we still need it?"

peterjc commented 2 years ago

Thanks Malvika, I agree this deserves its own issue.

hlapp commented 2 years ago

Well, at this point all OBF Affiliated Projects have that status because of legacy. But maybe I'm not understanding the question or issue?

peterjc commented 2 years ago

This was the paragraph I was questioning:

Other projects that existed prior to enactment of this policy can be grandfathered to Affiliated or Candidate OBF Project status as well upon approval by the OBF Board of Directors. It is expected that the Board will do so in public session. For pre-existing projects grandfathered to Candidate OBF Project status the minimum waiting period for seeking Affiliate OBF Project status is waived.

Original issue clarified - Malvika and I were too close to see this wasn't clear to fresh eyes.