No, this is a vote for the project becoming a top level project (TLP). I
assume that the committers are kept. The PMC is more a boring legal
thing; these are a subset of the committers.
Best regards
Henning
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 15:36 -0500, Laubach, Shawn Contr 555 ACSS/GFLA1
wrote:
> So I can vote for this but then I'm not a committer anymore? Just curious.
>
> Shawn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Burch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 4:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; general@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: [VOTE] Move POI to TLP
>
> Hi All
>
> After lots of discussion within POI, and Jakarta in general, we think POI
> is ready to graduate to its own TLP. Thanks to the magic of ApacheCon,
> lots of people have been on-hand to help finalise the proposal for this,
> which is attached below.
>
> So, now is the time to vote on the proposal:
> [ ] +1 I support the proposal
> [ ] +0 I don't care
> [ ] -1 I'm opposed to the proposal because...
>
> Voting will close in one week.
>
> Cheers
> Nick
>
>
>
> WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
> interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
> Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
> Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
> open-source software related to the continued implementation of
> the library for manipulating files in various business formats
> currently known as Apache POI for distribution at
> no charge to the public.
>
> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
> Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache POI Project", be and
> hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and
> be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the Apache POI Project be and hereby is
> responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related
> to creation and maintenance of open-source software and
> documentation
> related to the POI library based on software licensed to
> the Foundation; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, POI" be and
> hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at
> the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the
> Apache POI Project, and to have primary responsibility for
> management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of
> the Apache POI Project; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
> hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
> POI PMC:
>
> * Nick Burch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Amol S. Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Jason Height <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Marc Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Rainer Klute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Yegor Kozlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Danny Muid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Andrew C. Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Avik Sengupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Glen Stampoultzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Sean Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Nick Burch
> be appointed to the office of Vice President, POI, to serve
> in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of
> Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death,
> resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until
> a successor is appointed; and be it further
>
> RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache
> POI sub-project and encumbered upon the Apache Jakarta
> PMC are hereafter discharged.
>
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