On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Matt Sergeant wrote: > I hope this wasn't misconstrued. All I mean is we're not suffering from > any particular problems with being in the XML PMC. It works well for us.
ack. > I guess what I'm trying to say is that by bringing this up you can fix > this problem. You don't need a redesign of the community. In part - it still is the case that we do rely on very few individuals to do the actual monitoring; and it is easy to miss someting when that volunteer is occupied otherwise. Do not forget that when we end up in a US style lawsuit we ultimately are not judged by how 'good' we do, but by the esoteric examples and extreme cases where we made a tiny slip. > The biggest problem I perceive with becoming a member of the XML community > at the ASF is the lack of documentation of what's expected of developers. Agreed - this is a mistake we're trying to correct in the incubator; which is both to document what we thing is expected and then ensure this message is heard. Having said that - defining what is expected is a process; and something which will take (a lot more) time. > Hmm, this should probably be CC'd to general@ :-) I haven't, because only > the above two paragraphs are relevant there. Feel free to do so :-) you are hitting on an issue: We may have started the incubator to make sure new projects are made more aware; perhaps we need to retroactively fit/debug somme of the older projects too. Especially as the work in the incubator, and ongoing legal exposure of the open source world, is slowly both chaning and refining the notions and what we expect from projects. Dw
