On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:57 AM, James William Dumay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +1 > > Thanks for starting this discussion Brett. > > Not being tied to Maven also presents us with the option to grow beyond > the scope of a Maven repository manager so what we can support other > similar tools if the niche presents itself. > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:04 +1100, Brett Porter wrote: > > Ok, seems there is some interest in putting together a proposal. I'm > > going to follow the same format we used at Continuum last month. > > > > Before we continue to vote on a proposal to send to the board, we need > > to: > > > > 1) Decide on a charter for the project. > > > > "the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to ..." > > "The Apache Archiva project is the creation and maintenance of > open-source software relating to the storage, retrieval and management > of build system artifacts." > > I think this sums up the scope of the project well enough. Or how about revising this to.. "... is the creation and maintenance of open-source software related cd to the management of build repositories and to the storage and retrieval of the build system artifacts residing in them." > > > > Any thoughts on this? > > > > 2) Nominate a chair to put in the proposal > > > > I would like to nominate Deng as the chair of the project. I think the > > work she has done in making sure releases happened consistently, > > answering users questions, and following up contributions has > > contributed a lot to the growth of the project recently. > > > > +1 > > I believe Deng is probably the most involved person across all areas of > the project, as Brett has mentioned. This makes her more than competent > to chair the proposal. > that would be a great honor :-) > > > Are there any other nominations or seconds? > > > > 3) Agree on the initial committers and PMC list > > > > I have the current committers list as: > > Maria Odea Ching ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Fabrice Bellingard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Nicolas de Loof ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Joakim Erdfelt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Arnaud Heritier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Dennis Lundberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Jesse McConnell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Brett Porter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Edwin Punzalan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Carlos Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Wendy Smoak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > John Tolentino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Emmanuel Venisse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > (removed Henri Yandell as he went emeritus already from Maven) > > > > Anyone on that list that doesn't feel they should be a committer? Did > > I miss anyone? > > +1 +1 > > > > Cheers, > > Brett > > > > Thanks, Deng
