> On May 11, 2014, at 8:35, Noah Slater wrote: > > > Community, > > > > Please do take the time to review this document. It's not that long, > > or that complex. An online reading time calculator said it's about 14 > > minutes long. Your input at this stage would be very beneficial for > > the project. (Anyone!)
Thank-you to everybody who’s already contributed, it’s superb. I’ve a few small questions below. BTW pretty markdwon if you prefer that at https://gist.github.com/dch/5af1d123893b17a5d1ce . # ByLaws https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40511017 # Re "2. Roles and Responsibilities" > "An inactive chair can be replaced by the PMC" Doesn't this actually require board approval for replacement? Technically this would be a recommendation of the PMC anyway to the board; do we need to note the difference? # Re "2.4. Project Management Committee" > "and that each and every release is the product of the community as a > whole. That is key to our litigation protection mechanisms." It might be worth clarifying (somewhere, maybe here) that a key part of the release process as PMC/committers is ensuring that the release contains only ALv2 licenced, or other appropriate licenced material. I was originally not aware of this important distinction. # Re "3.4. Vetos" > "Any change to the source code that we distribute in our official > releases". When is a veto a veto? e.g. if Q -1's my commit in (say) a proposed merge to master, I'd assume that's a veto and then work with Q accordingly. Or is this section only referring to a -1 during the release cycle (in which case obv the RM would be waving a special flag). # Re "3.5. Approval Models" > "Votes on PMC decisions are binding if they are cast by a PMC member" What is a "PMC Decision"? I assume electing a new committer/PMC member/chair only? Or does a release *also* fall into this category? # Re "3.6. Decisions Types" "Decision Types" reads better to me. YMMV, FFTI. Is there a good reason for committers *not* to have a binding release vote? It feels unfair. — Dave Cottlehuber [email protected] Sent from my Couch
