Hi climate folks, The Board has tabled the Open Climate Workbench attic resolution for one month.
Normally, such a resolution, with the support of the majority of PMC members who voted, would be approved immediately. In this case, there is a small chance that the problems are due to a failure to communicate the importance of some aspects of how Apache projects must operate. The delay in voting on the resolution is to allow time to make sure those requirements have been communicated, and to see if the project is able to conform to them. The core concept is "Community over Code". The ASF as an organization does not directly manage code. Rather, it manages oversight of communities that collaboratively govern themselves, both in development of their software product and in developing a community that will continue doing so over time. Building and maintaining a community depends on continuous communication with that community, visible on our platforms, and respecting everyone's views and ideas. All decisions for the project must be discussed and decided in an appropriate forum in which the entire community can participate, such that all viewpoints can be expressed and heard. By default, the forum for technical and project direction issues is the dev@ mailing list. Off-list discussions that are only available to a subset of the community are always problematic. While sometimes convenient, they lead to exclusion and disinterest in the project. It is very important that such discussion be to reported back to the full community in a timely manner, in a way that encourages discussion and further input. The dev@ mailing list is probably the best place for open ended discussion because it presents less of an obstacle for people in distant time zones to have their say (eventually), and for the community as a whole to be able read and learn from that discussion far into the future. If anyone in this project community wishes to continue this project at Apache, according to our expected processes as a collaborative project, then please say so. If three or more people are willing to do so, the board will likely allow them to do so as the new PMC for Open Climate Workbench (whether or not they are currently on the PMC). If not, the board will go ahead and move Open Climate Workbench to the Apache Attic. Folks are free to continue improving the code elsewhere, if they like, or even recreate a new project using all or parts of that code via the Incubator. Cheers, ....Roy T. Fielding (as Chairman, The ASF)
