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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
