OK - took a little longer than intended, but I've got a draft put together. I can keep adding to this, but wanted to get it out for comments on what's written so far.
One question - we seem to have "committers" as well as "maintainers." What's the difference between the two? I'm trying to reach a balance between an informal document and something as structured as the Linux development process (see the Linux Foundation link in the appendix). If people want to see more formality and structure, let me know. Please review what I have so far and share thoughts with the list. Thanks. :) http://wiki.cloudstack.org/display/COMM/Draft%3A+CloudStack+Maintainers+Guide (or http://wiki.cloudstack.org/x/MIB9) John ps - I went back and forth on the naming of this doc, between "CloudStack Maintainers Guide" and "CloudStack Contributors Guide." For now I'm using CS Maintainers Guide, to focus the efforts. I think eventually we need a single document or wiki section that covers a good selection of topics for a new developer - creating bugs, setting up the dev environment, coding style/code quality, documentation, patch submission, probably lots of others.
