On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Rice, Joe wrote:
> I'm doing a school project on Jakarta and it's Open Source process. I've > read everything that I could find online and still had a few questions: > > 1. The PMC bylaws say that there are only 7 PMC members. But the credits > page lists 38 people for the PMC? The 7 is out of date now. We're actively enlarging the PMC to cover all active Jakarta committers. I'll make sure the need to update http://jakarta.apache.org/site/management.html is an issue raised to the PMC. > 2. What is used to determine when a release is ready? When outstanding bugs > in Bugzilla are resolved? Or is there another driver? When the community decides that a release should be done. [So you're going to get lots of answers here] That's the driving thing at Apache, the community. If the community choose to release a jdk1.5 only beta, then they can do so. If they choose to do so, and for some reason the PMC has a reason to disagree, then the PMC might get involved. Like, maybe the release does not fit with other parts of the Apache Way, or there are legality worries. [apache way is on: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mission.html, though that list does seem to miss the important one of community] Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
