Post a list of projects and get PMC people to volunteer to post reports, chase up CLAs and improve PMC-to-non-PMC ratio, and record who has volunteered. Keep going until all projects are covered by the minimum number, which can be 1 to start with.
Hen On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Ted Husted wrote: > (Again, sorry about the quoting.) > > o·ver·sight > > 1. An unintentional omission or mistake. > 2. Watchful care or management; supervision > > <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=oversight> > > The board expects PMCs to exercise (2) so as to avoid (1). :) > > For a PMC this boils down to issues of "committer consensus" and > "intellectual property". In the past, there have been incidents at > Jakarta on both counts that lead to suspension of access, for both > individuals and modules (on different occasions). > > IMHO, if we were to > > * require subprojects to file regular reports with bullets regarding > consensus and oversight, and > > * subscribe all committers to the PMC list where these reports are filed > > then we'd be able to defuse these happenstances before they turn into > incidents. > > IMHO, the one and only set of individuals that can provide "watchful > care" over a codebase is the set of committers we already have for each > subproject. > > IMHO, each and every committer to a Jakarta subproject has already > passed through a gauntlet that proves they are PMC material and entitled > to binding votes. > > All we need to do is complete the process that promotes our committers > to PMC members with binding votes, as our original guidelines > contemplated, and require subprojects to provide regular status reports. > (Just as the board requires our project to report.) > > As both Roy and Greg have said, if the Jakarta committers truly > understood how few rights and privileges they have, they would be > demanding both ASF and PMC membership. Few do, so few have. > > -Ted. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
