Does anyone have any outstanding issues with this version of the charter? Are we ready for a vote?
I've been pretty swamped until today, now I just put my lawyer hat on (yes, I'm a lawyer... well, you don't want to know... ;-)) and I've read carefully the charter. Random notes:
1. para 6.3 of the ASF bylaws is somehow unclear, infact it might suggest that a PMC chair might be anyone, but other than that only members can be part of a PMC. Given, anyway, that this is definitely not the case for most PMC I know of and/or participate to (despite not being a member), my take is that the Board is aware of that and have decided for an extensive interpretation of such article, since it doesn't actually forbid non ASF members to be part of a PMC (although I was actually unable to find a board minute or resolution stating that - probably my bad);
2. I still think that para 6.1 of the XML charter, second phrase, should be changed from
"New committers are added when a developer is nominated by a committer and approved by at least 50 percent of the committers for thatsubproject with no opposing votes."
to
"New committers are added when a developer is nominated by a committer and approved by at least 50 percent of the *active* committers for thatsubproject with no opposing votes."
a small change, but might help in avoding stalls for projects with a few activity but a good number of committers, mostly inactive. Take xindice as an example: we have roughly 16 committers, but only 3-4 of them are actively following the list. Given this situation we might have an hard time letting interested people in (and this happened in the past when we had to send private emails to wake up people and have them vote).
Other than that, I'm fine with it. Thanks Berin for cleaning it up, looks much more readable now.
Ciao,
-- Gianugo Rabellino Pro-netics s.r.l. http://www.pro-netics.com
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