Well, it's never actually happened before, and it's not clear to me that it will. If we end up with every possible scenario, then we'll need lawyers to understand the thing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Stricker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:26 AM Subject: Re: Charter Discussions > Ted Leung schrieb: > > > > I share your concern, but I'd rather deal with this if it actually happens. > > > > What do other people think? > > I think it's the wrong way to wait until somethink foreseeable bad > happens and only react then. Our charter should be "debugged" right now! > ;-)) > > Best regards, > Martin Stricker > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 6:23 AM > > Subject: Re: Charter Discussions > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > The proposed charter contains this sentence describing the process for > > > adding committers: > > > > > > ``New committers are added when a developer is nomonated by a committer > > and > > > is > > > approved by at least 50% of the committers for that subproject, with no > > > "no" votes.'' > > > > > > For this to work, one would have to know who all the committers for a > > given > > > subproject are; I for one don't know how to access this information. I > > > also wonder whether other subprojects are like the one I commit to > > > (Xerces-j), where there are a number of very active committers and other > > > committers whose circumstances are such as not to allow them to commit all > > > that often. As time goes by and more committers are added to a > > > subproject--and, one would think, more committers move on to bigger and > > > better things, yet remain on the list of committers--I wonder whether it > > > might not be difficult to get 50% of all committers to a subproject to > > cast > > > a vote to add a new committer. > > > > > > To avoid this potential death from growth, as it were, I'd propose to > > > change the above to read something like: > > > > > > ``New committers are added when a developer is nomonated by a committer > > and > > > is > > > approved by at least 50% of the committers for that subproject, or by at > > > least 5 committers to that subproject within 2 weeks of the nomination, > > > with no > > > "no" votes.'' > > > > > > I'd suggest 2 weeks should be plenty of time for someone to exercise a > > > veto. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Neil > > > > > > Neil Graham > > > XML Parser Development > > > IBM Toronto Lab > > > Phone: 416-448-3519, T/L 778-3519 > > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Homepage http://www.martin-stricker.de/ > Webmaster-Forum http://www.masterportal24.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.cgi > Mitglied im Science Fiction Club Deutschland e. V. http://www.sfcdev.de/ > Registered Linux user #210635 http://counter.li.org/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
