Regarding PMC members - I think I'm all alone there :( Otis
--- Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2004, at 9:54 AM, Bernhard Messer wrote: > > Currently i'm not able to see how much adminitrative work this will > > > raise. Are there any known apache projects already moved from a > > subproject to TLP ? Maybe they could give us some important hints > what > > effort will come over the community. > > I've started a thread on the Jakarta PMC list, and have gotten > several > very helpful and supportive replies. > > What other Lucene committers are PMC members? Otis is. Others? > > Sam Ruby had the following advice: > > >> The board has a bias against self-referential definitions (the > 'foo' > >> project is for managing software related to the 'foo' project - > >> believe it or not, this happens all too often). So naming the > >> proposed project something like search is a good idea. > >> > >> The board tends to prefer projects whose scopes don't overlap with > > >> other projects. That does not appear to be a problem here. In > other > >> cases, this involves highlighting differences in technical > approaches > >> taken by two "competing" projects. > >> > >> Finally, some members of the board have a strong bias against > >> umbrella projects. My advice here is to not emphasize this aspect > of > >> the proposal. Overall, the fact that this reduces the size of the > > >> Jakarta project umbrella, those with this bias will be happy. > > In other words, I guess we should de-emphasize the idea of bring > Nutch > under the umbrella, but focus on how Lucene itself belongs outside > Jakarta because it is its own community and does not depend on any > Jakarta projects, and that we will bring in non-Java ports over time. > > Next step is to create the proposal, following in the footsteps of > Jetspeed or Struts for example. If no one else volunteers for it, > I'll > craft it sometime this week hopefully. > > Erik > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
