The board resolution that created Labs said: "...establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of innovation labs where committers of the foundation can experiment with new ideas without the burden of community building..."
and also: "...RESOLVED, that Apache Labs is responsible for promoting innovation without discrimination of purpose, medium or implementation technology..." The full minutes are here: http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2006/board_minutes_2006_11_15.txt So nothing at all in there really limiting what the project can do WRT whats being discussed on this thread. Further on in the minutes in Attachment W are the Labs project Bylaws, usually projects are free to change bylaws as they see fit as long as it stays within the project scope, this resolution does mention the bylaws and says the project "...will continue to maintain and adapt such bylaws to maximize its goals and minimize eventual negative impact on the rest of the foundation." So it sounds like there is a lot of scope for making whatever changes to the Labs bylaws might be felt necessary to help revive the project. As a slight aside i notice that there are a lot of those PMC members still on the PMC almost five years later but who don't seem active, i don't recall seeing much email from them anyway. I wonder if some updating of PMC members could help, just as with any other Apache project, adding new PMC members can help keep things alive and bring new ideas. ...ant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
