On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:30:52PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote: > Scott Boag wrote: > > >Strong plus one for project-level representation, member to be voted in by > >the given project. I have been an advocate for this for a very long time. > > Further background on the HTTPD PMC model, which a number of people > advocate that each project should follow (and, I must admit, I am > starting to warm up to): > > 1) The norm is for every active committer who has been so for a period > of time (this is approximately 6 months in the case of HTTPD) to become > a part of the PMC. Yes, this makes for a large PMC. > > 2) Any release done by the project is accomplished via a vote of that PMC. > > Quite a different model than we have today, eh? > > I feel comfortable with idea of Matt on the PMC, but uncomfortable with > the notion of people getting to vote on actions such as releases of > AxKit that they can't directly participate in. > > That's why I advocate reverting back to the policy that XML had when it > was young that a committer to any is a commiter to all. If there are > any subprojects for which this does not make sense, then becoming a > separate project does.
+1000 Tear down the walls, and any subproject who feels uncomfortably exposed to the whims of untrusted committers can attain autonomy by becoming a top-level project. Eg, I am _personally_ quite happy for the whole of xml.apache.org to have commit rights to Forrest, so I would vote for staying here. I trust some compromise could be made with the PMC about "majority" votes. Others in Forrest might vote to make Forrest a separate project, and that would also be cool. I suspect that once subprojects discover the sky hasn't fallen, and they're getting small but useful commits (typo fixes etc) from non-core committers, xml.apache.org will go on as usual but in a more open fashion. --Jeff > - Sam Ruby > --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
