I mentioned that I would formally notify the board in which I was referencing this policy. =|
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
