On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 10:54, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Jason,
> 
> >>>>[I won't even get into the question of why those two can't be related
> >>>>projects under a single PMC]
> >>>Read the Ant mission....it specifically states the Ant build system as
> >>>it's scope.
> >>Bah. The Board can easily change the scope if there are better ways to
> >>organize the software that we [the ASF] produce.
> > So that's going to be the board deciding what is right? What project's
> > themselves want is not right enough? That is frightening. What happened
> > to project self direction/determination?
> 
> I perceived Greg's comment as saying that if Ant and Maven wanted to
> cooperate under a PMC, that the Board could change the scope of the PC
> charter.  Why is this frightening to you?

Because this is not what's happening. Sam is trying to force a
collalition because of some sense of "Rightness". We would like to be
left alone and if a natural level of cooperation emerges in time so be
it. But it shouldn't be dictated from the start which is the impression
I'm getting.

> 
>       --- Noel
> 
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