Hi all -- Some interesting news for those of you who are SpamAssassin committers -- we recently voted to amend the rules for SpamAssassin PMC eligibility. Previously, as the http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ProjectRoles page put it, we used this policy:
Committers with a long history of significant involvement in the advancement of the project and project development (ideally in more than one way), a strong ability to work with others in the ASF way, and who are not jerkwads are generally nominated to be on the PMC. After the PMC has voted to add a new PMC member, the ASF board has to approve new PMC members; this is discussed [WWW] on how-it-works.html. We've decided to change this to a new one, whereby pretty much all active committers can be on the PMC if they want; here are the new rules: Any committer who (a) is not already on the PMC, (b) has been a committer for at least 6 months, and (c) has made a commit in the previous 3 months, may be offered an invitation to join the PMC. After a committer becomes eligible, a notice will be sent to the private@ mailing list, and allowed the usual 24hrs lazy consensus vote. Assuming that vote passes, the offer should stress what it means to be part of the PMC and that acceptance is an indication that they want to be involved. If they accept the offer, they are moved onto the PMC. Any PMC member who has become inactive for a period of 6 months (ie. no commits or participation in the PMC/Development community) may be marked as an "emeritus" member of the PMC. At any time, an emeritus member can declare that they are active again, and the emeritus status will be revoked. The idea is, if you're an active committer, you have a full say in the running of the project. As a result, we'll be sending out the invites to the eligible committers. if you're an ineligible committer, and want to be on the PMC, I suggest you keep contributing so you become sufficiently "active" to qualify by those rules ;) Cheers, --j.
