Author: jdcasey
Date: Wed Jul 24 23:21:58 2013
New Revision: 1506778
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1506778
Log:
Adding section on PMC standards of community commitment
Modified:
maven/site/trunk/content/markdown/project-roles.md
Modified: maven/site/trunk/content/markdown/project-roles.md
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/site/trunk/content/markdown/project-roles.md?rev=1506778&r1=1506777&r2=1506778&view=diff
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--- maven/site/trunk/content/markdown/project-roles.md (original)
+++ maven/site/trunk/content/markdown/project-roles.md Wed Jul 24 23:21:58 2013
@@ -176,6 +176,29 @@ The Project Management Committee has the
* Voting on release artifacts.
* <!-- TODO: get the rest of these -->
+#### Standards for Community Commitment
+
+In the spirit of supporting the health of our community, Project
+Management Committee members refrain from actions that subvert the
+functioning of the committee itself.
+
+First, Project Management Committee members should not maintain long-running
+forks of Maven code outside of the project itself. Making significant
+changes to Maven code outside of the project displays a lack of
+investment in the community. Additionally, attempting to re-integrate
+a large number of code changes in bulk overwhelms the ability of
+volunteers in the community to review (and potentially veto) the
+changes. This effectively thwarts the policing function of the
+PMC.
+
+Second, Project Management Committee members should not divert
+work on redesigning, reimplementing, or improving Maven code to
+alternative projects outside of this community for the purposes of
+reintroducing them as replacement for existing Maven code. While there
+is a danger here of falling into a Not Invented Here mentality, new projects
+created by Maven PMC members strictly to replace Maven code should not be
+allowed.
+
### [Project Management
Chair](http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#pmc-chair)
For various legal reasons, there are certain things that the Apache
