On 31 May 2004, at 12:25, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
The ASF board decided not to accept Steven's resigns until the PMC itself came up with a new informed decision on who should follow him.
This means that Steven remains the chair until the board ratifies it.
(I've been away for a couple of days)
Just to clarify things: we agreed little more than a year ago that we should make this "Chair" job a low-fuzz/low-profile thing. One way to ensure this is to keep terms short, but still effective - something like a year. It's been little more than a year now that I did my part of the duty, and I announced my *willingness* to resign by this summer to the PMC list. This somehow was communicated to the board as "my resignation", however I had indicated that I would stay on the job as long as no successor had been voted on. So the board didn't *have* to accept anything, since we haven't forwarded them a resolution to agree upon.
Here I would like to start the nominations (in no particular order):
While it's a low profile thing, it requires some energy and dedication, and I would everybody advise *not* to propose anyone but themselves. This is not a question of nominations and votes, it's just a matter of finding people who want to *do* the job (rather than *be* the chair). Let's not make this into a popularity contest, nor nominate anyone but yourself, and let volunteers step up and propose themselves. This was my rationale for *not* proposing successors myself.
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java & XML An Orixo Member Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
