My intent is not to rush to put in place any radical change, or to address all issues in one sweeping proposal. My intent is merely to put in place enough bylaws to enable the necessary changes to be made. My current thinking is to propose this formally after the ApacheCon to give people adequate time to discuss this, but feedback on both the content and timing are welcome.
Enough preamble. Here's the outline of the proposed changes:
1) Eliminate any upper limit to the number of PMC members
2) Allow new PMC members to be proposed at any time
3) Remove references to resigning, add an emeritus status
4) Reinstate all past PMC members as emeritus status
In addition to these bylaws, I anticipate a set of non-normative guidelines. Proposed PMC members will normally already be committers. Typically, a proposed PMC member will have been actively involved on a sustained basis (no significant gaps) for six months since becoming a committer. I intend to nominate any ASF members who are also Jakarta committers as new PMC members.
The intent is that this is intended to be orthogonal to any proposals to promote an existing Jakarta subproject to become a top level project. Of course, people involved may voluntarily chose to change their status to emeritus, but are under no obligation to do so.
Thoughts?
- Sam Ruby
