Nice. I personally would still like to see Diversity broken out in a separate document, but the idea of a charter is very good and this covers a lot of ground.
This also dovetails very nicely with the mentorship ideas I have floated here and on IRC in the past. +1, let's do this! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noah Slater" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 3:50:15 PM Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Apache CouchDB Diversity Statement. I have two things I'd like to add. 1. I'd like to widen this bit and turn it into a PMC charter. Basically a document that sets out what the PMC values, our commitment to diversity, and our pledge to the project. It's basically the same idea, but with a flourishes. The closest we have to this at the moment is here: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb-admin.git;a=blob_plain;f=email/invite_pmc.txt;hb=HEAD I'd like to improve on this. 2. Technical ability is something I feel very strongly about. We've made a huge blunder IMO in requiring past contributors to be highly technical. I would like to introduce and officialise the same policy as Apache Forrest. cf. https://forrest.apache.org/committed.html Summary: we recognise merit in four areas: (Co)mmunity - one must interact with others, and share vision and knowledge (P)roject - a clear vision and consensus are needed (Do)cumentation - without it, the stuff remains only in the minds of the authors (C)ode - discussion goes nowhere without code I would like to think that we would elect someone who is blogging for us, or doing marketing, or speaking a lot. These are all important people, and their importance to the project should be recognised. It's been about two years since I started pushing on this topic at the PMC level and there have been big cultural changes. I am confident that I could elect people with contributions in any of these areas. But I want to make it official. This is what we value. This is what we will recognise. Our promise to the community. -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
