On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:52:17AM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote: > I'm planning on submitting a proposal to change the bylaws of Jakarta to > bring Jakarta's PMC structure closer to the HTTPD one. Before I do so, > I would like to gather the opinions of a self selecting cross section of > both Jakarta and non-Jakarta committers, and it occurs to me that this > mailing list enables me to do exactly that. > > 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. >
+1 to all. Sam, you continue to be pretty spot on :) -- Scott Sanders - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
