----- Original Message ----- > Hi, Andrew. > > > Why do the members of a group get to determine the project lead, > > rather than the members of said project? > > That's the way that it's specified in the Bylaws: > > http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#project-lead > > When a Project is created, or when its Project Lead resigns or > departs, candidates for a new Project Lead may be nominated by the > Group Leads of a Project’s Sponsoring Groups. Such a nomination must > be approved by a Three-Vote Consensus of these Group Leads. If > agreement amongst these Group Leads cannot be reached then the > OpenJDK Lead will select one of the nominees; this decision may be > appealed to the Governing Board. >
Yes, this is what I was reading :) Maybe this suggests it's time to propose a new group? IcedTea has never really fitted the remit of the porters group anyway, so a deployment group seems plausible, and would also be a suitable home for things like a web plugin project. > Thanks, > iris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Hughes [mailto:gnu.and...@redhat.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 10:52 AM > To: Kelly O'Hair > Cc: disc...@openjdk.java.net; jdk6-dev@openjdk.java.net > Subject: Re: CFV: Nominate Andrew Haley as jdk6 Project Lead > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > I nominate Andrew Haley as the new jdk6 Project Lead. According to > > the > > bylaws on project leads [1] the Group Leads of the sponsoring > > project > > gets to nominate and vote. The only sponsoring group is the Build > > Group (that would be me :^). > > > > -kto > > > > [1] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#project-lead > > Congratulations Andrew. > > However, this raises an interesting point. Why do the members of a > group get to determine the project lead, rather than the members of > said project? > > By these rules, the implication is that, for example, Dalibor solely > gets to determine the leads of Caciocavallo, IcedTea, Zero, > BSD-port, MacOS X port, the PPC-AIX port, the MIPS port and the > proposed AArch64 port. This doesn't make sense to me. > > I also don't see a single group lead by someone outside Oracle. > -- > Andrew :) > > Free Java Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) > > PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A > 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07 > > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
