True. Right now, I monitor the Commons, Lucene, and Taglibs, and only have commit rights to one of these.
Since the PMC meets here, the subprojects can represent their own interests. The primary role of the PMC is to ensure that the ASF bylaws and Jakarta guidelines are observed, and that Apache resources are not used in inappropriate ways. The PMC gets to vote on new subprojects, but the committee members have no other special privledges or powers. -Ted. Marc Saegesser wrote: > > Simply because each Jakarta project doesn't have a committer on the PMC does > not necessarily imply that each project would not have representation on the > PMC. Hopefully, through the nomination and voting process, each project > would find someone that is willing to represent their interests in the PMC. > Requiring direct representation for each project does not sound like a good > long term strategy. > > Marc Saegesser > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:07 PM > > To: Jakarta General List > > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta PMC bylaws change > > > > > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 06:27, Sam Ruby wrote: > > > The number of PMC seats will be set at seven. Annually, > > all seven seats > > > will be up for renewal. The ASF board will be asked to > > provide a person or > > > persons to administer the nominations and a subsequent ballot. The > > > administrator(s) will determine the mechanics of the voting > > procedures. > > > Any committer to any Jakarta code base will be eligible to > > vote. Once the > > > new PMC is in place, the first order of business will be to > > determine a > > > chairperson from amongst their ranks. > > > > > > Once ratified, this proposal would be effective immediately, and an > > > election would be initiated. > > > > Sounds good - but this kinda has one other implication. The > > PMC will no > > longer be able to adequetly cover all sub-projects - it would > > be quite > > possible that some some projects would be completely without > > representation. > > > > If this was put in place it kinda suggests that maybe jakarta > > should not be > > so big ... ;) > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > > > Pete > > > > -------------------------------- > > These aren't the droids you're > > looking for. Move along. > > -------------------------------- > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
