Proposal to Create componentize-py about governance

[ricochet]

I reviewed componentize-py and found it to be in excellent alignment with the Bytecode Alliance Mission and principles. I only had a few notes:

• Contributor Documentation
  • Adding a CONTRIBUTING.md is desirable. Some info like building from source is in the README.
• Public Project Meetings and Notes
  • Part of Python WG within Guest Languages SIG
• Semantic Versioning
  • yes, defined in pyproject.toml as 0.3.2

[dicej]

Thanks for taking a look, @ricochet. I would also note that I'm planning to add doc and implementation comments to the code (which is sorely lacking in that respect), along with a high-level architecture overview. That will hopefully make the code more approachable to new contributors.

[dicej]

One other thing to mention: componentize-py depends on component-init which used to be a subcrate of the project, but I split it out into its own repo at @guybedford's request so it could be reused by other projects more easily. It's sort of a "Wizer, but for components", but also designed to be runtime agnostic (i.e. explicitly avoiding a Wasmtime dependency) so it can be more readily reused in e.g. jco. Should I create a separate proposal to make that a BA-hosted project as well?

[fitzgen]

The TSC has reviewed this proposal, and I am happy to say that it was approved.

The one thing we would like to see is a CONTRIBUTING.md, as noted above. (This can happen before or immediately after transfering to the BA org, either way works). Note that we aren't asking for a ton of new content, just that the relevant bits from README.md are split out to CONTRIBUTING.md. More details can always be added in follow up PRs.

I will leave it to @tschneidereit to handle the transfer from here.

[fitzgen]

Oh and regarding component-init, we can leave it where it is for the time being: I will separately review it and see whether I think it makes sense to fold into Wizer or whether we should encourage it to be its own project in the BA.

[dicej]

I've added a CONTRIBUTING.md file, as requested. I also tried transferring it to the BA org, but got You don’t have the permission to create public repositories on bytecodealliance from GitHub. @tschneidereit is going to do some research on what the correct process is.

[tschneidereit]

We've sorted out the repository transfer, so this is all ready to go. Thank you again for all the effort you put into getting componentize-py to this point, and for donating it to the BA, @dicej!