Advise against self-mandates for the project as you don't want to be in violation of your own bylaws just for being lazy ;-)
>________________________________ > From: Peter Karman <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 9:27 PM >Subject: [lucy-dev] Bylaws > >Marvin Humphrey wrote on 3/28/12 7:55 PM: > >> LUCY-220 -- Draft bylaws for Apache Lucy TLP > >We need to write some bylaws. I started a draft here: > >http://wiki.apache.org/lucy/DraftBylaws > >It is based heavily on: > >http://wiki.apache.org/gump/Drafts/ProjectBylaws > >for no particular reason other than it was the first wiki-based google hit I >came across, and seemed to reflect boilerplate I found elsewhere. > >The one key difference is that I changed the language on the 'Chair' section to >mandate an annual election. > >Please edit/comment/discuss the draft I've put up there. When some reasonable >time has passed, we can call a VOTE on this list to ratify the Bylaws (which >action should itself be noted in the Bylaws ... /me adds that language). > > >-- >Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . [email protected] > > >
