Hi Frank (and team) We make use of some facilities on codehaus (confluence, jira and so on). They have recently integrated their security system and have set up a few people with the keys to the kingdom (one per project). However for geotools this "despot" was James, and we could not find him.
So after recognizing that geotools was not listed as one of their projects because it lacked a description, I asked if I could be made despot (so I could update the project description). As far as I know this is the only duty for a geotools codehaus despot, although they do offer more services (webdav, website, etc...) that we do not make use of. Cheers, Jody > Jody Garnett wrote: >> Hi after chatting on irc.codehaus.org I have been made a despot ... >> so I can work through some of the issues that have been piling up. I >> am going to tag in another PMC member or two so we have a chance of >> responding quickly. > > Jody, > > Can you detail a bit about what this "Despot" role entails? As project > mentor I need to acertain that the project governance is operating in a > documented and agreed upon manner. A despot role might be fine as > long as > it is approved by the PMC and has fairly clear documented parameters. > > In fact, one thing that OSGeo incubation requires is a PMC member who > would > be responsible for reporting to the board on project status, and who > would > hold the title "OSGeo Vice President Geotools" though it does not need to > have any special authority over the project other than that the person > should > serve on the PMC. > > Some (most?) other projects essentially have a PMC Chair who serves > this role. > > Best regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel