Tim, It seems you're rather fond of it. Quite the number of posters in this thread are particpating in either body, or both. I feel confident that they can take it as input from here and discuss appropriate follow-up in their specific mailing lists.
Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Tim Williams <william...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Branko, > > > > I am confident that the existing project with bylaws, policies and/or > > standing rules formalised has had its share of discussions regarding > > applicability of elements therein.. And have resolved those. I guess that > > when such an element is either to vague or to restrictive so that the > > situation becomes untenable to move things forward, the community will > find > > ways to resolve it. > > > > This thread is about: > > > > > > - why does the Board tasks projects to create a set of bylaws for some > > graduating podlings (when so many seem to feel that it doesn't add > value); > > - and when it does, why doesn't it follow up on the task or request > the > > VP of the project to report on its progress until the task is > completed. > > > > It has to come from somewhere. It seems to come to light during the > > incubation phase. Don't mentors advice properly? > > I reckon the answer to these questions is simply that we've all > realized over a long period of time that project-specific bylaws - > while once popular and thought necessary - aren't desirable. We > thought they were necessary a decade ago and over the course of time > realized not so much. And, while we've all come to that realization, > no one has taken the time to change the TLP resolution to reflect > that. And that's likely because most of us don't have bureaucratic > itches - you apparently do, so why not just ask the incubator > PMC/board to drop that paragraph? > > Thanks, > --tim >
