Reviving this thread as Mark pinged me offline about this topic. Better to talk openly, so Mark consider this your response :)
Let's open this discussion up again. If there are committers that wish to take on the legal work required for releases, perhaps even cut some releases we should add. Before volunteering, however, please read: - http://tomee.apache.org/management-and-voting.html We've gone years with little to no traffic on the private@ list. If we suddenly turned into a closed community, it'd be a sad thing. -David On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 8:29 AM, David Blevins <[email protected]> wrote: > Some basic information on PMCs and voting: > > - http://tomee.apache.org/management-and-voting.html > > Short answer, being on the PMC brings more work and no additional > authority. That work is primarily scanning the legal files every single > release before you vote. Scanning them means you need to fully understand > what they are and how they work, when they need updating and how to do > that. You become part of Apache's legal shield against legal trouble. > Being on the PMC and not understanding or performing all the above and > still voting, significantly weakens Apache should any legal issue arise. > > Here's also a list of all our committers: > > - http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#tomee > > Looking at our PMC list, it needs to be updated. Kevan actually resigned > as he no longer has time to do any of the work. > > We should probably add a couple more people. > > > -David > > > > > >
