OK, hell has frozen over.  Thanks sebb for that!

That's actually insane that you can't quit until the meeting.  You can
normally resign a post by writing a resignation letter in most places.
Why is this?



On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:13 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 April 2014 22:34, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote:
>> Hello Cordova community. To this point I've served as the chair for the
>> Cordova PMC.
>>
>> The duties of chair are solely administrative: board reports, and book
>> keeping of committer nominations. Some projects at Apache have more formal
>> incantations. We have, so far, preferred to maintain our lightweight
>> approach meaning a committer is a PMC member too. This involves sending an
>> email, updating a text file in SVN, and running a few perl scripts on
>> http://people.apache.org. Keeping those books is important if some day
>> there is a dispute to the veracity of our source.
>>
>> In evaluation of  my current workload these additional book keeping
>> responsibilities are not appropriate for me to prioritize and that is not
>> fair to Cordova.
>>
>> I'm going to step down as chair for Cordova and I would like to nominate
>> Shazron Abdullha to take on the role. Shaz has been with the project since
>> before it was called Cordova. He lands more code than most, interacts
>> directly with the community more than anyone, and is committed to work on
>> Cordova solely full time. He'll be a better chair than I ever was.
>>
>> I won't be going anywhere and (I hope!) this means I can contribute more
>> code than emails in the future. We can be formal and go to a vote if there
>> is objection or interest in seeing someone else take the admin duties on.
>> Otherwise, I'll aim to shoot the board official notice early next week.
>
> Please note that the procedure for changing the PMC chair is not the
> same as for changing PMC membership.
> This is because the chair is an officer of the ASF [1].
> As such, changes to the chair can only occur at a board meeting, and
> require a formal motion rather than a simple NOTICE.
> An example template can be found here [2] (requires ASF committer login)
>
> [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/faq.html#why-are-PMC-chairs-officers
> [2] 
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/templates/change-chair-resolution.txt

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