Its a lot to wade through and digest. So maybe I just haven't been
able to join up the dots but there's a few things that seem worth
a mention. See below ..
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> A Member of a Group has write access to the Group’s web content and
file repositories.
Does this imply that Contributors must rely on Group members to do pushes ?
Seems a backward step from where we are now, where with appropriate
approval
from group members, any contributor can push.
But there's also the subtlety that ..
> Groups do not have code repositories of their own but they may
sponsor Projects, which do
so maybe that first sentence should have said the group's PROJECT
repositories ?
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There are so many roles : eg contributor/openjdk member/group
member/author/committer
Author and committer are project based. It would seem that being a
committer and
author for the JDK 7 project doesn't automatically roll over to JDK7
updates, JDK 8, or JDK 9
which seems overly onerous. And I'm unclear how groups roles relate to
these roles.
I can see that some of the structure is because there are other openjdk
projects besides
the JDK-N ones but I don't see that it fits well with the rather
important JDK cases.
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> Every OpenJDK Membership is subject to automatic Expiration after one
year,
> but will be renewed upon request. A request for renewal must be
received within
> one year of expiration.
So contributor membership and group membership do not expire ? Only
OpenJDK membership ?
How do you expect the renewal to work in practice ? Will there be some
kind of reminder ?
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>An individual may be nominated to a new or newly-empty
>appointed seat by any Governing Board member, and is
>approved by a Simple Majority of the Governing Board.
I don't understand how that is supposed to work since the
appointed positions are defined to be appointed by either
IBM or Oracle.
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-phil.
On 5/19/2011 2:51 PM, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote:
The second public draft of the OpenJDK Community Bylaws is now
available [1], with an accompanying Q&A document [2].
In this draft we've attempted to address all feedback received,
both publicly and privately, on the first public draft [3]. If
any comments on that draft remain unaddressed or questions remain
unanswered then please do let us know.
Please send questions, comments, and suggestions on this second
draft to the gb-discuss list by 15:00 UTC on 2 June 2011. If no
major changes are required in response to feedback received by
that time then a ratification vote will be held shortly thereafter.
- Mark
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/gb/bylaws/draft-openjdk-bylaws-09
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/gb/bylaws/qanda.html
[3] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/gb/bylaws/draft-openjdk-bylaws-07
