Sorry for being a little late with my review of the bylaws, but I still don't understand the "Author" role as described in the bylaws and as far as I have seen, this has not been discussed until now. From the definition of "Contributor" I read that
- "A Contributor may submit changes larger than a simple patch" and from the definition of Author I read that - "An Author for a Project is a Contributor who has been granted the right to create changesets intended to be pushed into a specific Project’s code repositories". So for me the "Author" role is a little artificial, because already "Contributors" have the right to submit changes. Why do you need special rights to create changesets for a specific code repository? Anybody who has read access to a repository can do that. And if he's a Contributor, he can submit them to the Projects list and hope for a "Committer" to submit them. This is the way how it was handled until now, or at least how I have submitted my few changes. Moreover the bylaws do not define a way how to become an Author (except for newly created Projects where the initial Authors are appointed by the Project Lead). I would therefore suggest to completely remove the Author role if that is still possible because from my point of view it doesn't add any features to the Contributor role but unnecessarily complicates the bylaws. Regards, Volker On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:51 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 >
