On 2006-01-07, Peter Seibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This looks good. I'd say that you guys should "officially" submit > this project. Which I guess means, send an email to gardeners with a > new subject line (i.e. don't reply to this message) of something > like: > > Project Proposal: Package and Resource Directory > > with a pointer to the appropriate project page and asking to have it > blessed as an official CL Gardener's project. Then we follow the > Apache style voting rules: anyone can vote +1, +0, -0, or -1 though > -1 votes must be accompanied with an counterproposal or explanation.
For an explanation of these ideas, see http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html. > In the end only the votes of the Green Thumbs officially count but > it's good for everyone else to take a look at the project and vote > accordingly. The main criteria for approving a project is that it is > well enough defined that a new Gardener can figure out what the > project is about (and thus whether they're interested in helping > out) and how to get started contributing. > > Obviously since CL Gardeners is going to sponsor a lot of projects > there's no need to vote against something just because you're not > interested in it; only vote -1 if you think either that the project > is poorly defined and thus likely to lead to gardeners wasting their > time trying to work on it or if you really feel that it doing it > will somehow be contrary to the Gardeners' mission of making Common > Lisp more attractive. I suspect the latter case will be quite rare. I added most of this to the Gardeners Project page (http://wiki.alu.org:80/Gardeners_Projects). (I also included a question about "what does +0 / -0 mean?", but I'll update it with the above link before someone points me to http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search?q=apache+voting+process. :) -- Larry _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
