Hello Justin, On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 09:51 -0700, Justin Deoliveira wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been thinking lately that perhaps it is time for a PSC update.
You are right to raise this issue since we all realize the PMC is indeed quite ill. However, merely appointing new members to the board offers no promise of actually revitalizing the leadership. It seems more radical action is needed. Over the past two months I have been toying with the idea of asking you all to step down so that we could run the project by consensus rather than by fiat for a while, i.e change the dynamic. Please realize that none of this is intended as a comment personally to any of you as human beings,as coders, or as musicians but rather comes as my reflection on the leadership you six have brought to GeoTools in 2008-2009. While PMC members have moral responsibilities towards the community and technical obligations to the project, few of you are contributing to the level of a leader and none of you have been following your obligations. The moral responsibilities of the leaders of a free software project are obviously ambiguous but perhaps involve placing taking decisions in the best interests of the project, nurturing the community around the project, reaching out to other groups, addressing the divergent interests, and building the project for the long term. The technical responsibilities of PMC members are spelled out in the developers guide which I am sure none of us have read for a long, long time but contain clauses that none of the PMC members are following. Perhaps those requirements are obsolete but the correct course of action then would be to change such regulations not to ignore them. The juxtaposition of a governance system based on a PMC, coupled with a dis-functional and non-functioning board, exacerbates the difficulties we are having as a community. Having a board suggests we should turn to that leadership to resolve community issues yet that leadership is absent. In a community, perhaps the dynamic would be different and we would know we have to turn to each other for resolution. So that is my 'thinking lately'. This is not yet a formal call for no leadership or new leadership but a response to you about my feelings on the subject. Regardless of your perspective on that particular issue, the fact that I am even raising the suggestion ought to prompt each of you into a self-examination of your own position. Probably at this juncture, it would make sense for each of you members of the PMC to justify yourselves to the community: explain why you should still be assumed to have the time and interest to lead both the project and community, explain to what extent you consider yourselves involved, explain why you are still on the PMC rather than playing soccer with some kids in the back yard or playing music with the neighbours. In other words, perhaps you should act as if you were running for election --- it might help revitalize the full PMC. respectfully, --adrian On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 09:51 -0700, Justin Deoliveira wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been thinking lately that perhaps it is time for a PSC update. > Currently the PSC members include: > > * Andrea Aime > * Ian Turton > * Justin Deoliveira > * Jody Garnett > * Martin Desruisseaux > * Simone Giannecchini > > People who I think would make great additions to the PSC: > > * Michael Bedward > > Michael has been doing a phenomenal job of supporting the users list. > > * Christian Mueller > > Christian has been actively contributing to DB2 and JDBC-NG, and active > on the mailing list. > > * Ben Caradoc-Davies > > Ben has been actively working on complex feature stuff and has been > making great strides. > > * Daniele Romagnoli > > Daniele has been doing great work on the coverage side of the library. > > If i missed anyone, my apologies. I encourage others to state their > opinions about who they think would make good PSC candidates. > > And for those I did mention, if you are not interested in serving on the > PSC, please just say so. > > -Justin > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
