On 04/06/2015 10:20 AM, jan i wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry for top posting.
>
> I have just been made aware, that my understanding of chair role was wrong.
> The Chair has the responsibility to make the board report:
>
> "The report is mainly about the status of the project, together with any
> community and legal issues or other general impediments. If there are
> issues requiring board assistance, then make that apparent, separate from
> any general project news. You can seek input from your PMC, but it is
> mainly your report to the board. The chair does not report to the PMC- the
> chair reports to the board (i.e. ultimately to the ASF membership)."
>
> Therefore I have updated the report, based on the comments I have received
> so far, by making sure it still highlight our problems, but also what we do
> to counter them.
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2015+Apr
This is better in tone generally. I suggest the following changes as
well --
under ## Activity --
"The level of commits on
trunk remain low, only a few simple fixes have been committed"
to
"Commits on trunk continue in accordance with current developer
interests and capability, but, overall, are lower than previous activity".
under ## Releases --
I would change --
"Even though the project remains committed to bring out version 4.1.2,
it is only progressing slowly."
to
"The project remains committed to bring out version 4.1.2, but is
progressing slowly due to other challenges."...(next sentence OK.) (last
sentence)
"The slowness is due to focus on other challenges
(like electing a new chair) and to lack of a release manager."
My feeling is that we will likely have enough to launch a next release
regardless of new developers at this point. We have yet to determine
what we want to fix and can fix first. We have at least 8 new languages
that appear ready to launch IMO.
Ok, enough from me on this.
>
> The report timing is:
> April 8, the report must be in the board agenda (I will add it today, to
> stop discussion in another ML)
> April 13, last chance to update the report in the board agenda (this is
> likely to change to 22th)
>
> As the quote above says "You can seek input from the PMC"; and I would like
> to hear comments which I can incorporate in the report.
>
> thanks in advance, and sorry for the confusion.
>
> jan I.
>
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