Staffan,
sorry about the late reply. I like your proposal a great deal. There are quite a few OpenACS projects (not least after the Copenhagen get-together), some of which are commercial and involve clients, and some which are not (such as volunteer improvements to OpenACS or openacs.org). It seems to me that your guidelines should apply to all these projects, not only professional ones.
My idea was to facilitate and require that every such project has a project page on openacs.org that at minimum has status updates in a blogger and a list of the people involved and some kind of roadmap/task list. For an illustration of what I had in mind, see the I18N project page:
http://www.collaboraid.biz/extranet/i18n/
I will be posting shortly to summarize ideas that were discussed during the OpenACS governance meeting in Copenhagen. The governance that we choose will influence your guidelines to some extent. We are leaning towards a governance structure similar to that of the Tcl/Tk project uses. That topic deserves its own thread.
