2011/5/31 16:35 -0700, philip.r...@oracle.com: > ======== > >> 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?
Yes. > Seems a backward step from where we are now, where with appropriate approval > from group members, any contributor can push. No, any Committer can push to a Group's web content. That's actually a bug in the current infrastructure. > 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 If you mean a Project's code repositories, then a Contributor must be a Committer to that Project in order to push changesets into those repos. It's not that hard to make a Contributor into a Committer -- it's just Lazy Consensus. > ======= > > 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. It's actually not onerous. When a Project is created the newly-chosen Project Lead is, at first, the only Committer, and as such has the opportunity to "vote" an appropriate set of Contributors into the Committer role for that Project. > And > I'm unclear how groups roles relate to these roles. In general there's no specific connection between being a Member of some Group and being an Author, Committer, or Reviewer for a Project, even if that Project is sponsored by that Group. In practice there will, of course, often be a lot of overlap in some cases, but there's no reason to formalize it in the Bylaws. > ======= > >> 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? Correct. > How do you expect the renewal to work in practice > ? Will there be some kind of reminder ? There will be some kind of automated system to send reminders and process renewals. > ======= > >> 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. Good catch -- of course Board members can't nominate or vote upon appointed seats. I suspect that paragraph is a leftover from a (much) earlier draft. I'll remove it. Thanks for your comments! - Mark
