On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:03:38PM +1000, Peter B. West wrote: > Jeremias et at, > > I've suggested some changes on the charter wiki. They do not take > account of Cliff's recent suggestion. > > >[1] > >http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?XMLProjectPages/XMLGraphicsPMCDraftCharter
Two suggestions from my part. Re Charter 2.1, the reason of existence of Apache XML Graphics: I think here the difference between both subprojects becomes apparent. Both have a different reason of existence. My suggestion: 2.1. Apache XML Graphics exists to promote the availability of graphical rendering and viewing software for XML-based formats. This has two components: - An implementation of the W3C XSL-FO Recommendation, which renders an abstract layout description in terms of Formatting Objects in a concrete layout in existing page description languages. - An implementation of the W3C SVG Recommendation, which renders SVG graphical information on existing graphical rendering platforms. [This explains why the transcoders were developed by FOP.] Re Potentially problematic points > FOP has recently voted in new committers who may have contributed too > little yet (in the view of some) to already become committers. This > was primarily due the fact that a lot of old FOP comitters became > inactive during the last two years and some of the FOP committers > wanted to help "reignite" the project. Although Batik seems to have > similar problems, they haven't taken similar steps. If this is a > problem for the Batik people, especially since the common components > will be accessible to FOP as well as Batik committers, we'd like the > Batik people to speak up. I do not think that was the (only) reason to vote in certain committers despite the fact that they had not contributed much code. There is a gap between contributors and committers. There is no recognized role for possible team members who contribute in other ways than writing code, although we all know that such contributions are important for projects with an established user base. I think there is no such role in all of Apache; if there were, the role could be added to the charter. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
